Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When World War II began, there were innumerable barricades of the imagination fixed in the U. S. mind. Towering was the first one: the U. S. had no part in Europe's wars. Imposing was the next: bumbling and awkward U. S. democracy could not move so swiftly and efficiently in a crisis as could the totalitarian States. Behind these bastions lay fixed ideas like trenches: the Midwest was forever Isolationist; Labor could never make peace; the unemployed could never be absorbed; the U. S. was running down. Like some great chain of fortifications called impregnable because...
...dent her indomitable domesticity. When Husband No. 1 (Don Ameche) dies of overwork writing an operetta for her, Singer Russell marries Henry Fonda. He has been waiting in the wings all the while, never gets up courage to ask until the end of the picture. In between are the awkward love makings of hippopotamic Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold), who walks through the part, laughing grossly from time to time in order (cinemaddicts are told) to conceal his broken heart...
Mademoiselle's phenomenal success brought no joy to Desmond Hall, because Desmond Hall resigned three years ago. The editor who raised Mademoiselle up from an awkward miss in pigtails is a dark-haired, well-groomed woman not yet 35: Betsy Talbot Blackwell...
...twangy Oklahoman named Roy Harris may well be the man. Born in a log cabin, Roy Harris is as independent as a Panhandle cowhand, as dryly American as the Dust Bowl where he spent his early childhood. When, in 1926, he ap peared in Eastern concert halls with an awkward, homemade symphonic piece un der his arm, critics took one look and de cided that here was music's own Joaquin Miller. Sent to Paris to study with famed Teacher Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb.28, 1938), Composer Harris showed for a time the influences of the French modernists...
According to Jack E. McKee, assistant in Sanitary Engineering and Chairman of the Committee, engineering students find themselves in a very awkward situation as regards housing, since they may gain admittance to a dormitory only after the students at the other graduate schools have been housed. For this reason, only six men are at present housed in University dormitories...