Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would "rather be a Herrick than a Donne, a Frost than an Eliot." The result of this preference is evident in a certain shallowness and over-simplification, a victory for sentimentality over sentiment. His liking for Frost sometimes turns to inferior imitation. One could point also to an awkward technique, especially in scansion, and a poeticized vocabulary. But through all these poems there runs a genuine feeling of what childhood and boyhood are like, that saves these poems for the ranks of good, if not great poetry...
When adult Hollywood stars encounter Hollywood infants, the cinemoppets generally steal the show. Stars Grant and Dunne successfully weather the serious competition of two pairs of identical twins (who play the Adams' child at different ages, one of each subbing for the other to save shooting time). The awkward, embarrassed ineptitude of their first night of parenthood is one of the most deliciously human, truly comic sequences out of Hollywood in many moons...
...busiest corner, Brattle and Boylston Streets converge at a weird angle. Opposite, if there is such a place, Mass. Ave. swerves through the northern arm of the Avenue, forming a dangerous and traditional bumping point, while Brattle surges through to the eastern arm to create another awkward rendezvous. The climax to this engineer's nightmare is the subway entrance brooding in the middle. With these non-Euclidean facilities, the Square tries to serve two purposes--a shopping center for students and a transfer station for in-town travellers. Twelve thousand outsiders shift El cars every day. Six hundred busses carry...
Last week President Roosevelt picked John Gilbert Winant as the new Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Nobody claimed that Mr. Vinant met all those specifications. A tall, awkward, slow-speaking, artless man of 51, Ambassador Winant has long been halfon, half-off the U. S. public scene, with his friends constantly predicting a great role for him just as he would quietly step out of the limelight. Background: wealthy New York family; St. Paul's School ('08); Princeton ('13); captain of a U. S. observation squadron in World War I; master...
...playing a fish is one simile that comes to mind. Echoes have been heard of his merry wit. And he once drove racing cars, though he ruefully admits that he never won a race. Yet the most engaging thing about him is his perfect courtesy. A raw-boned and awkward freshman steps before him. Nothing is right about his stance. His parries are slow and his disengage circles huge. Patiently Peroy begins to iron out the main difficulties, showing him how to put his feet, relax his wrist, lunge, cut to the head. At the end of about fifteen minutes...