Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cross-current themes: the glimmerings of sympathetic consciousness awakened in the older sailors is one, and it's brilliantly performed in each isolated scene. But the characters are on the road, in a new place each time, so they have little control over a development that happens too awkward and fast...
NOTHING IS guaranteed to make an audience feel more awkward than a joke which doesn't work. The captive spectator, forced to watch a fellow human being struggling for laughs where few are to be had, is constantly beset by nagging questions and self-doubt. Why am I here? How can it be that I have paid to see this? How far away is the exit...
Things get a bit sticky when Walton agrees to let his daughter Elvira marry a royalist, Lord Arturo Talbot. They get even more awkward when, on the wedding day, Arturo spirits Enrichetta away from the Puritan fortress to safety. Elvira does not understand that, and goes sweetly and pathetically mad, while Arturo is sentenced in absentia to death...
...first foray into "alien" male territory came in 1952 when, as a staff member of the U.S. Economics Corp., she prepared and delivered a forecast for Ford executive, then found herself presenting it in person. She was asked back for a follow-up and has not felt awkward in all-male company since. She rose to become president of U.S. Economics Corp. in 1969, engineered a merger with Lionel D. Edie & Co., then joined the American Paper Institute in 1973 as a vice president and picked up a directorship of Sears. Along the way she forged a new approach...
...perceptive, and critical audiences a place like Harvard can provide. While he is quietly confident that Hardesty Park has commercial potential--several producers in New York have expressed interest in it--McCleery wants the type of response he can get from audiences here to point out the play's awkward edges and thereby help him buff it into finished form...