Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when this duty is ignored or rejected-as it is rejected when the issuer is a liar, an editorial prostitute whose political judgments can be bought, a malicious inflamer of unjust hatred-the ground for his claim of right is abandoned." Prosecution of such betrayers of freedom might be awkward, he conceded, "but the first step toward dealing with them is to recognize that the ground upon which they could make a claim of right is gone; they have forfeited...
...doesn't bend so sharply. But he manages to hide the ball more expertly: it comes up at a batsman out of nowhere as "alive" as an eel and just as hard to get hold of. Besides getting extra leverage from his wide sidearm sweep, Blackwell's awkward motion keeps enemy batsmen loose at the plate-just in case one of his pitches gets out of control. The third man to face Blackwell in the All-Star game was Boston's Ted Williams, who just looked at a third strike whizzing...
...ringer for Ichabod Crane. From a slouchy, 6 ft. 5 in. frame, Ewell Blackwell's arms dangled almost to his knees. When he wound up and pitched sidearm, he was so awkward that another player remarked: "He looks like he's falling out of a tree." Last week the awkward one, up to the majors for his second year (after three seasons in the Army), shuffled out to the mound in Cincinnati to face the league-leading Boston Braves in his first night game of the season...
When he walked onto the platform in awkward, quick steps, Bernstein was greeted by waves of applause that didn't subside until, just as awkwardly, he turned around and lifted his hands to begin Schumann's Symphony No. 2. Some said the ovation overshadowed the greeting given Toscanini when he conducted the orchestra's first concert...
...English tragedy is incomparably closer to achieving its original objective than it was when it opened in 1945. What makes the difference in this strangely improved production is the supporting cast, which has undergone a complete transformation since the opening. Gone are the foreign accents, the faltering diction, the awkward pace of the original Gertrude, Claudius, and Polonius; in their place an almost perfect supporting trio has appeared. As the queen, Doris Lloyd gives a performance which is remarkable for its interpretation of a difficult role; Henry Edwards keeps up a distinctly superior standard as the unsympathetic Claudius; and Miles...