Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Building with Dabs. Cézanne has a lot of bad drawing besides his own to answer for. The 19th Century's conscientious master did more than any other artist to make awkward drawing, dabs, distortion, and the fracturing of space fashionable in the 20th. Glimpsing a solid geometry in nature, Cézanne spent most of his life trying to apply it to art. Seen close up, his later paintings, such as Gardanne (see cut), look like Cubist abstractions and were, in fact, the point at which Cubism first left the world behind...
Last week the awkward, stubby, soft-spoken fellow whom sportswriters had incongruously named "The Killer" lined up against five others in Boston Garden, his spectacles firmly secured. For the first two laps Dodds lagged behind; then he spurted. As always, he ran by the clock, not by the competition-the way he set the world indoor mile record (4:06.4) three years ago. He was as graceless as ever; his arms still thrashed like windmills. But at the half-mile his time was 2:00 flat (exactly half of the theoretical four-minute mile) and he was way out front...
...Worley, contributor of two short stories, is clearly at home in the form of writing in which the central characters' thoughts take the place of dialogue and the awkward conversation of most amateur pieces is neatly side-stepped. Immediately noticeable is Miss Worley's economical and effective use of words. Only an unnecessary first paragraph mars here technical effort. "The Enigma," her heavyweight contribution dealing with love on idealistic and physical levels, has many fine observations and insights. The sensitive theme is handled maturely and whether or not the psychology of the story rings true probably depends to a large...
...rain which inundated Soldiers Field did just as effective a job on the Business School soccer fields, making the footing extremely slippery and turning the goals into little better than mud puddles. As a result, the action was dotted with sliding collisions and awkward falls, but in spite of the fact that the ball was water-logged and difficult to handle, booming kicks featured the play...
Skimmed off the top of the froth, "Margie" is another throwback to the days of the flapper, raccoon coat and Stutz Bearcat. Told in easy retrospect, "Margie" is as pleasant as on evening over the family album, and as awkward as a picture of Mother conducting a high-school debate...