Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic leadership, particularly those that are anathema to Mister Sam (such as a bill to televise any House committee session). Thus far, the committee majority of eight pro-Rayburn Democrats has closed ranks, refused to let the bills reach the floor. But this puts the Rayburnites in the awkward position of blocking legislation, something they held to be downright dangerous when Smith controlled the committee...
...conception, without intolerable side effects, and, beginning this week, at moderate cost. "Oral contraception," says a doctor in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "has become an accomplished fact." As an accomplished fact, its potentials are vast. In the U.S., oral contraception could, for many people, supplant more awkward, older methods. In the world, the pill could eventually keep the population growth manageable. In the field of morals, it is raising new storms of controversy...
...possesses all the deadly virtues. But Ivashov plays the role gently, with humor (shrewdly bribing an officiously corrupt train guard, telling white lies to the father of the soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...
...Nepal. Then, the King explained ingeniously that he had acted because the Koirala government was "killing the people's democratic aspirations." Last week, talking to a TIME correspondent in Katmandu, the King gave a more candid reason: "The Koirala government was always trying to put me in an awkward position . . . It preached that the King was standing in the way of reform...
...Captain's Table) Lee's direction has edge and drive; and as the spymaster, Actor Andrews drifts through the story like a huge and sinister iceberg-a masterly personification of national self-interest. With this image on the screen, not even a sappy ending can blink the awkward and timely issue this picture so entertainingly presents: If nations are not bound by the laws of men, why should men be bound by the laws of nations...