Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personable M. Lanux is due to arrive soon in the U. S. for a "propaganda tour." Preceding him last week came a 15-page mimeographed handout entitled Anti-French Opinion in the United States. Propagandist Lanux shrewdly assembled the hardest, most awkward and embarrassing things he could imagine a U. S. citizen saying about France and listed them as the "Twelve Chief Attacks." Then he shrewdly wrote his "Twelve Answers Concerning France." Altogether M. Lanux' attacks are better than his answers. Excerpts...
Book and record reviews round out this issue, as usual. In general, there is an unfortunate lack of creative writing in this Progressive. A two-paragraph short-short-short story by George May berry only makes an awkward bow in the direction of leftist belles-letters, a field, that the Progressive is well fitted to invade...
...always been fascinated by this man. His letters and conversation charmed some of the greatest minds of Europe and America, and Vag, reading them, has been charmed too. Vag knows he was an awkward, unprepossessing giant, a bore on the speaking platform, a fantastic figure receiving an Ambassador in his slippers and dressing gown. Vag respects and shares his fear of concentrating too much power in the hands of one man, but applauds his stony determination that struck fear into the hearts of the Adamses, Girards, and Astors. Vag would like to have followed him around his house and farm...
...made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. That evening, ill-starred Kansas City Soprano Marion Talley made hers. In the storm and shuffle of publicity that attended Soprano Talley's debut, Melchior was practically overlooked. One critic described his acting as "barely more than awkward." But Melchior stayed on. Not long afterward, Soprano Talley's bubble had burst, and Manhattan operagoers began to think that Melchior was the best all-round Heldentenor they had heard since Jean de Reszke. As the years went by, and Wagnerian opera became the Met's specialty, sturdy Lauritz...