Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Decreeing "emergency powers" to himself, Ghulam Mohammed revalidated most of the laws, but last week the court ruled that his action was illegal: only an Assembly and a Governor General acting jointly comprise a sovereign body. This was a bit awkward for Ghulam, who dissolved the Assembly last year and now runs a "controlled democracy...
...physically awkward"-so much so that he bent every effort to making himself manually skillful, spending hours whipping a rifle to his shoulder in front of a mirror (he became a first-rate shot). Fear of error caused him to develop "an insatiable appetite for tabulation" and the determination to write nothing that he could not back up. His inability to talk back fast and deep-rooted fear of sudden criticism made him a wary recluse who spent year upon year building impregnable fortresses. Author Irvine is a shade sharp with Novelist Samuel Butler, who, like Shaw after him, quarreled...
Said the mayor of Kanazawa: "Most awkward...
...Studio One, pretty Nina Foch accomplished the considerable job of looking plain as a mud fence in a drama about a thirtyish spinster who gets her last chance at a sad-eyed, vintage bachelor (Edward Andrews). Their hesitant, tongue-tied courtship contained perhaps too many pregnant pauses and awkward gropings for words, but even though the drama bore a considerable resemblance to Paddy Chayefsky's Holiday Song of several years ago, it achieved the agonizing ache and flowering fulfillment of the loveless who finally find love...
Martha Davidson seemed to have read about the only-Golux-in-the-world with considerable understanding. And she somehow communicated this understanding to her body so that the Golux was consistently right and helped the whole thing go along. Her protectorate, Prince Zorn by Glenn Goldberg, was gracefully awkward and cloud-eyed as he followed the only Golux over the Duke's dead body to the hand of the Princess Saralinda. Goldberg and Miss Davidson were most always very good at being what they should...