Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiering and left to themselves by a lackadaisical summer-session faculty, idle away the last of their childhood. Their leader, Gene's roommate, is a wild, laughing youth named Phineas. He is the best athlete in the school, a boy of immense grace, no more capable of an awkward movement than...
...policies in toto. He was to be disappointed in this, but could claim another victory of sorts last week. The South African government's Bantu Education department ruled that its officials no longer may shake hands with Africans they meet on official business. To get around any awkward encounters, they should employ "traditional" greetings to blacks-say, a hand raised in salute or, when squatting in tribal parley, the clapping of hands...
Understanding but Awkward. The trouble may be that Novelist O'Hara has hedged his commitment to interior dialogue. He strains Millhouser's musings through a narrator, a young man who begins to talk with the murderer out of curiosity and continues the conversations because he hopes to write his master's thesis in form of a novel. The device is awkward, and the frequent asides to the reader are irritating. A scene in which the young man fancies he js in communication with the shade of Millhouser's mother is as embarrassing as any in recent...
...South Africans one awkward test of compassion still remained. A relief fund for the survivors had climbed past the $300,000 mark. In South Africa there is no racial equality even in death; compensation laws grant a white miner's wife a pension for life of up to $93 a month. But a Bantu widow gets only a lump sum payment, which, if prudently invested, would give a return calculated at $9 a month. At week's end keepers of the fund were trying to decide whether or not to apply a similar ratio...
...Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Houston, Buffalo, Boston and Dallas. The money is pledged, and stadiums are available. Relations are raw between the American and the established National Football League, and if open war breaks out, it will be over charges and countercharges of invasion of territorial rights, and the awkward fact that some college players have agreeably signed contracts with teams in both leagues. ¶ Baseball's Continental League has mixed blessings from the two major leagues, a full roster of cities (Atlanta, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York, Toronto), and heady plans to play...