Word: awkwardness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sciences rarely exist in pure forms, and the most awkward age of psychoanalysis isn't that remote. Freud chose euthanasia over cancer only 36 years ago, and good gossip, which has a stamina of its own, has survived along with many of Freud's family and colleagues. They keep a polite silence on touchy subjects like Freud's scorn for America--these will remain secrets until 2010, when the Freud family papers are finally released. But a coaxing scrambling Paul Roazen has eked from them enough fascinating anecdotes on Freud's private life and the personal struggles of the psychoanalytic...
...third country Gulliver visited, the floating island of Laputa. Laputa's scholarly inhabitants crushed rebels by landing the island on their heads, built houses starting with the roofs and working down to the foundations, and attempted to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. Gulliver said he had never seen anyone more "awkward, clumsy and unhandy...
Elated, but unable to reach his wife Mo in California because he had told her to keep their ever-ringing home phone off its hook, Dean began packing. He did so casually, since his fellow prisoner Jeb Stuart Magruder was near by, and Dean felt awkward about being released while Magruder remained confined. Then Magruder, too, was summoned to the telephone, and Dean got the drift of the conversation. He rushed up to Magruder. "Jeb, I got the same kind of phone call." The two men joyfully hugged each other...
...member of the magazine's staff, who asked not to be named, said Thursday that Harrison's resignation resulted from "problems of authority." "It was a very awkward situation," he continued, characterizing Peretz as "a guy that was not going to be a silent partner." But the staff member also said he felt that "the conflict has been overplayed...
...quality of the acting varies from the high level of Rebecca Goldman's taut portrayal of the schizophrenic Georgina and Ed Baran's glassy-eyed baby-talking Commodore to the awkward self-consciousness of some of the bit players. Demetrious Athens plays a detached and rather pedantic Basho and Rick Hagan, as Kiro, and Thomas Nolan, as Shogo, both have a lot of stage presence but their speaking voices lack variety of intonation...