Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was no objection. Awkward as the secret nonvoting procedure may have sounded, to the U.N.'s 115 member nations it was better than a formal vote-which would have forced the U.S. to challenge Russia's right to vote and ended the delicate search for a compromise on the financial-arrears question. So the ambassadors obediently lined up outside Quaison-Sackey's office, indicated their preferences on a slip of paper...
...bright spots. Guard A.I Bornheimer scored 12 points (including six for six from the foul line); he has played very little this season, but he is a good outside shooter. And 6-6 Lyna Bennison, tallest man on the squad, seems to be developing. He is still somewhat awkward, but his rebounding and shooting looked much improved last night...
Inspirational art must be discredited... insane, ugly, revolting art must be substituted... Remove all inspiring and beautiful art from exhibitions and substitute degenerate art in its place. Have murals painted out, abstract art substituted. Try for meaningless emptiness... Eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms. Tie Junk together and set it up as sculpture. Public justification--This is the NEW art, advanced, progressive, creative...
Culpepper's play will be the second drama by a Harvard undergraduate, and only the third by an American, to be presented on the Loeb main stage. The first undergraduate play was Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s The Pageant of Awkward Shadows, which won the first Anderson award two years...
Model Wife. Bonnard's indoor art thrived on women. He loved them in awkward, innocent postures, when they let down their shields of glamor. Women for Bonnard were his wife, Marthe de Meligny, a cute midinette he met when he was 28. When they were married 30 years later, he found out that she was not aristocratic, only plain Maria Boursin, but his love never left...