Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what properly but disruptively takes over is Freud's own career, including his relations with his once daring, now success-loving senior colleague, the brilliant Dr. Joseph Breuer (well played by Sam Wanamaker). Once the case history runs away with the play, it proves awkward for the play to run away from the history...
...that apartheid-minded Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has walked out of the British Commonwealth, many South Africans of British descent find themselves in an awkward position. Though they recoil from the vulgar "master-race" trumpetings of the regime, they are uncomfortably aware that most did not fight it much, all accepted the comfortable benefits. Wrote one such South African to the Johannesburg Star, in a letter that was part taunt and part self-mockery...
...Michael Redgrave's chestnut-haired, statuesque (5 ft. 10½ in.) daughter Vanessa, 24, was appearing in Ibsen's rarely performed The Lady from the Sea as Boletta, the awkward elder daughter, and achieving a superb characterization after years of promising but unspectacular parts. Wrote Kenneth Tynan in the Observer: "If there is better acting than this in London, I should like to hear...
Author Mitford puts rather too little wit and spirit into what is, at best, an awkward theme for comedy, the civil war between generations. Her sharpest jabs are scarcely meant to be funny and are aimed at that badly frayed bogeyman, the Americanization of the Old World. The book ends with a teen-age riot when Yanky Fonzy, a pasty-faced U.S.-type rock 'n' roller, is booked into Le Pop Club de France, escorted by two runaway idolaters from Eton-Fanny's younger sons, naturally. The Yanky Fonzy riot almost saves Don't Tell Alfred...
...nine men, including the foreman -who later asserted that they had received assurances that their appearance had been okayed by federal authorities (it was not)-were seated around a long table at the WBAL studio. Also present (offstage) was a narrator who bridged awkward conversational gaps by making "clarifying" allusions for dramatic purposes of the hour-long taped show. The program was unsponsored, but the volunteer actors received $1 each for their ad-libbed efforts. "It was like a dream," one said, "like walking into a room and knowing what's going to happen...