Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...songs was fairly pallid. The first half of their selections slogged along rather dully during a medley of Three German Romantic Choruses by Schubert, Schumann, and Weber, respectively. The horn accompaniment, though an improvement over many a brass ensemble, still cast a submarine gloom over three already drab and awkward numbers...
...dialogue in "Sentimental Education" at times seems overly awkward, it serves to underline the couple's awareness of themselves...
Died. Joan McCracken, 39, pixyish dancer and actress who rose from the obscurity of the precision-tooled Rockette chorus line to overnight fame by playing the awkward, out-of-step country girl Sylvie, "The Girl Who Falls Down,"' in Broadway's long-running Oklahoma!; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Ancient (47) Archie Moore was apologetic. "I'm sorry," he said. "It should have been a more classic performance. But this man is a very awkward fighter-it's hard to hit him cleanly." The awkward fighter was hapless Pete Rademacher, 33, who lost to Moore on a T.K.O. after being decked once in the fourth round, five times in the fifth and twice in the sixth. Rademacher, who was K.O.'d by Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson in his first pro bout, had insisted on waiving a rule that requires a bout to be stopped...
Perhaps, too, of course, Mr. Andrew Schenck, the Bach Society's new conductor, might have done something to enliven the evening. Mr. Schenck is blessed with one of the most competent small (and largely collegiate) orchestras in the country--it is hampered neither by ghostly strings nor awkward brass--but like Haydn and his themes, he often seems unable to decide what he wants to do with his musicians...