Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other five works were plays. One of these was put on by the Harvard Dramatic Club's Theatre Workshop: The Prophet, by Gerald P. Burns '62, awkward exercise in portraying a Second Coming amid juvenile delinquency. Judith Abrams '60 and Sheila A. Greibach '60 collaborated on written for performance at Radcliffe on Senior Class Day. The other three items, of which more below, were The Beloved, by Timothy '60; The Card Game, by John D. Asher '61; and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur L. Kopit...
...Asian and African states will certainly press hard in this session for internationalization of the Algerian problem; they will propose a cease-fire and plebiscite under UN supervision. It is equally certain that France will hear of no such thing, and the United States will then be in awkward position--a position to which they only realistic solution will be support of France and rejection of the Asian-African proposal...
...stooped man in the crumpled grey suit stood on the stage of London's Royal Festival Hall, bowing gently and solemnly to the welling applause. Twice he withdrew, and twice he returned, walking with awkward, nervous steps. If Dmitry Shostakovich was surprised by the ovation, so was his audience by what it had heard: the Shostakovich Concerto for Cello, being given its London premiere, was one of the most immediate concert hits in years...
...short, post-convention summer session ordered by the Democratic leadership to make campaign hay turned into a Democratic fiasco. Bill after bill was either stopped dead or hacked to pieces by a disciplined coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. Dick Nixon would not have to explain away any awkward presidential vetoes during his campaign, because President Eisenhower had not had to use his veto.* Although on adjourning Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn pointed with customary pride, they could not camouflage the failure...
...appalled at your misconception concerning the Yale-North Haven Summer School [which has a Yale teacher-training program]. True, it is an experience for us students but, for the most part, not a worthwhile one. The influence of the master teacher is felt by the student only through the awkward efforts of the teachers-in-training, who, moreover, are often less acquainted with their subject than are their pupils...