Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never been able to feel anything more positive than impatience for Berger's interminable Reinhardt trilogy, a thousand-page mope about the flounderings of a fat loser. The impatience is not a bit dispelled by Regiment of Women. Berger's latest book is either a grossly awkward takeoff on the excesses of Women's Lib or a blundering satire about the way men treat women. The fact that a careful observer cannot decide which is one indication of what is wrong with the kind of novel Berger has written...
Despite the strong hold that the custom has in the medical community, a growing number of doctors would like to see it eliminated or at least curtailed. Some argue that receiving free medical care makes it awkward to be critical about the treatment if it is unsatisfactory. Others feel that friends may be unwilling to perform embarrassing but vital procedures. For example, in giving a doctor friend a general checkup, one physician failed to perform a rectal examination. The patient was later found to have inoperable cancer of the prostate...
...they could not stomach his 20-20 insight on the U.S. and the war. In The Orphan, at off-Broadway's Public Theater, Viet Nam is not actively present except as Rabe attempts to relate it to the problem of evil throughout human existence. Often as silly and awkward as it is ambitious, the play nonetheless bears the mark of a dramatist who dares and cares...
...Vice President felt that Nixon had misled those elected officials into thinking that they were going to get more federal funds from his revenue-sharing programs than now seems likely−and Agnew has no desire to take the heat for this. Explains an Agnew spokesman: "It could be awkward for the Vice President to continue as an advocate of Governors, mayors and county officials at a time when they might be in opposition to Administration policy...
Premier Ghandi's interview seemed to indicate the awkward position India is confronted with when she said that any release of Pakistani POWs would not come "without the total involvement and concurrence of Bangladesh." Thus, India is trying to bring both countries together while being diplomatically bound to the Bengalis...