Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another Math Department bystander darted into his office and returned a few seconds later with a large, awkward wooden object which says was a Renaissance-period ancestor of the flute. After demonstrating how to play the instrument, he passed it around among his friends, some of whom acknowledged that they were already familiar with a modern-day woodwind...
Perhaps it is no accident, Taylor suggests, that math concentrators are stereotyped as sloppy and socially awkward. They tend to be "non-visual people" not especially intrigued by human psychology, he says. They are drawn, as a result, to "self-contained" systems like math and music, and also discover that music fills an emotional need...
...those rare moments between the past and the future. The proceedings were declared secret, to show up in Morris' book a couple of years or so from now. Late in the afternoon Reagan got a call from George Bush. He took it in private, knowing it could be an awkward moment to share with the public. Bush said thank you for the victory to come, the victory that both could feel as the evening rushed in on them...
...globes are awkward to carry around. And no matter what gimmick is used, drawing the surface of a sphere on a flat plane results in distortion. Anyone who tries to flatten the whole peel of an orange can imagine the difficulty. The features of a globe cannot be transferred accurately to a flat map. If the shapes of continents are correct, the sizes are wrong; a system that is accurate at the equator is hopeless at the poles...
Horch and Marston give lackluster performances overall. Horch is often awkward and distracted on stage. It is almost as if Horch is thinking of next week's midterms...