Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the trustees of the University of Illinois met to vote for a new president this week, they faced an awkward situation. Angered over what he called the "public review" of his past, the favorite candidate, Vice Chancellor David Dodds Henry of New York University, withdrew from the race (TIME, Dec. 6). Nevertheless, the trustees voted unanimously to elect Henry anyway, and Board President Herbert B. Megran traveled to Manhattan to persuade him to accept. At week's end, after a day-long huddle, Henry gave in. Assured of the board's full cooperation, a $30,000 salary...
Tasteful borders of carved wooden or plaster masks, expressing the emotion under examination, would have really done wonders for the film. In future, this is the direction that wide films should take. Carved decorations in the awkward borders, for one thing, would relieve actors of projecting emotion. Henceforth, when a pretty young friend of some producer wants to register anger, instead of furrowing her generally marble brow, she need only point, with languid grandeur, toward the appropriate mask. Her charm need not be destroyed by the necessity of acting. This could mean great things for the future of television...
...almost all the characters of the novel, he in effect accepts a synopsis as his plot. The result is a heavy burden of exposition, which slows the first act hopelessly and blurs the dramatic focus of the play. More important, while the genius of James as a novelist surmounted awkward handling of dialogue, it is almost wholly from that dialogue--often stiff and opaque--that Archibald has fashioned his play. He might better have interpolated passages in which James lights his characters as he seldom does through their words. On such passages the reader relies above all in regard...
...famous composer to write background music for a film, it had to play an expensive game of Haydn seek; nowadays, the film colony has a sort of Bach yard full of kept musical geniuses. The current favorite is a man called Dimitri Tiomkin, who has filled in the awkward pauses of High Noon, Cyrano de Bergerac and many other recent pictures with stuff that one critic called "Kaffee-Klatchaturian...
...sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward as a bull calf, Lett's uncluttered sense of scene and even-paced storytelling give the book strength and fascination...