Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white revolution," which is aimed at bettering the lot of Iran's desperately poor 16 million peasants, while curbing the absentee landowners and mullahs (Moslem priests), who bitterly oppose all reforms. But Alam, an old personal friend of the Shah, had come to power in the awkward period in 1962 when there was no Majlis (parliament), and the Shah ruled by decree. Mansur, representing the majority New Iran Party in today's Majlis, has a solid political base. Alam will not suffer overmuch; he becomes guardian of the Shah's son, three-year-old Crown Prince Reza...
Ostensibly, Hallelujah has a plot, but I can't say I felt like puzzling it out. So let me refer to a printed synopsis: Vera is a lovely girl who has been courted by two men for seven years--Leo (Marty Greenbaum), who is quiet and awkward, and Jack (Peter H. Beard), who is handsome and unpredictable. Since each suitor sees the girl differently, Vera is played by two actresses (Sheila Finn and Peggy Steffans). This is clever. In the eighth year Vera marries Gideon, who never appears; and Jack and Leo go off on a camping trip...
...reticent about his past, and his "conversion" has left no visible scars. Still the complete Southern gentleman, he drawls softly and easily, smiles often, listens courteously--with apparent interest--to any argument, and seems incapable of anger or depression. His 6 feet, 3 inch frame moves with an awkward rural grace, out of place, and charming, in both the halls of Congress and the dining room of Leverett House. The aloof informality suggests anything but a stormy past...
...contrived a marriage between Beauharnais's son Alexander and her niece, Josephine, just turned 16. When Alexander met his bride on her arrival at Brest, he wrote cautiously to his father: "Mademoiselle will perhaps seem less pretty to you than you expect." She was, in fact, an awkward, unschooled girl from the colonies. Alexander tried, without success, to teach his wife to spell and to tutor her in history, but soon lost interest and was living away from home by the time their second child was born...
...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Under dingy eaves, or in front of bookcases chockful of texts, Playwright Peter Shaffer sees the awkward and funny, stuffy and tender sides of people searching for love...