Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tone of Ribman's play original. The combination of resignation and amused tolerance which characterizes landowner Nikolai Alexeevich Chulkaturin is reminiscent--deliberately so--of Camus' heroes. But there is a new dimension to Chulkaturin. He is awkward, comicly so at times. He possesses that amazing ability to stop a conversation dead merely by his appearance...
...only part of Chulkaturin's appeal is to be found in the script. For the rest Huston is responsible. He makes Chulkaturin awkward without making him an embarrassing buffon, the greatest danger in such a characterization. For if Chulkaturin were a clown, his words, his perception, his ability to endure the "slings and arrows" could not possibly be convincing. When Huston smiles, it is the quiet smile, the wise and tolerant smile, that can appear only on the lips of the man who has known a bitter fate and has, ultimately, perceived the irony of it. He knows, quite well...
...knew the results of the All-Star game. He chatted on and on, with somewhat feeble witticisms about asking the astronauts' wives for a date (coyly revealing that he really meant a state dinner). While there was a certain unpretentious charm to it all, it was also an awkward performance, and its triviality was strongly at odds with the solemnity of what had been accomplished. To describe the feat, Nixon reached for a superlative and found a big one. "This," he announced, "is the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation." That seemed somewhat sweeping...
STEPS to restrain an overgrowing economy and control inflation never begin to take effect for at least six months. Paul McCracken, the President's chief economist, rather charitably calls that tense period of waiting and watching "the awkward months." Last week, seven months after Washington's policymakers set the anti-inflationary course of tight money and tough budgeting, there were indications that the economic slowdown is starting...
...Prague this spring, the opening night of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance brought unexpected and poignant audience involvement. Sophisticated Prague had thronged to the occasion -officials, diplomats, the liberal writers and intelligentsia. As they watched Albee's comedy of menace, laughter came in awkward places. For the Czechs, the plight of a suburban American family whose neighbors suddenly come to stay was transformed into an agonizing allegory of their national tragedy. When Harry and Edna arrogantly explain why they know their invasion is welcome, angry whispers swept the theater...