Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speech was misstated. Beyond this, the letter simply did not read like Butterworth. While the Kennedy Administration was clearly unhappy with the Diefenbaker government, hardly anyone thought that skilled Career Diplomat Butterworth would have so clumsily intervened in the Canadian political situation. And he would hardly have used the awkward phrasing of the letter ("I was delighted with the timing, which I considered perfect, announcing the stand taken by your party"), or addressed his friend Mike Pearson with the formal "Dear Mr. Pearson...
...Harvard to maintain that Radcliffe really doesn't understand the temptations to which young couples are subject, or explicitly to reject Radcliffe's assumption that young ladies are competent to look after their own virtue. And since women have traditionally been the defenders of morality, it is a bit awkward to say that what is permissible by Radcliffe's standards is not to be allowed by Harvard...
...sing virtually through her nose and to detach each note from the next. Richard Conrad, as Nonnus, showed the best voice, but both his acting and singing were monotonous. His colleague Gerhard (Thomas Walker) lacked vocal control and similarly, Carolyn Kimball's motion between registers was very awkward...
...directing a production of Measure for Measure, and also playing in it under an assumed name. In the latter role he is unobjectionable, if uninspired; in the former, he has been led by his obviously extensive acquaintance with the more prominent modern critics of the play to create an awkward intermission in the middle of Act III, Scene 1. Mr. Babe is not, however, without his own reading of the play: he finds it a crashing bore. Now this is probably a novel interpretation, but it cannot be denied that it is a beautifully compelling one; at any rate...
Richard describes himself as "mock tough" when he first knew Philip Burton. Burton, for his part, was chiefly impressed?in Richard's first awkward go on a stage?by the boy's "astonishing audience control. He could do anything he wanted with the audience." This is one talent that can only be found, never developed, and since Richard had it, Phil Burton trained him dramatically, put an English polish on his voice without obscuring the Welsh vitality, fed him a reading list of great books, prepared him for his try for Oxford, and directed him in all his early plays...