Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst parts of the magazine are the least important. "A Note to Readers" is a defensive justification of the magazine which serves mainly to prepare the reader for the worst. And the "Advocate Notes" on its contributors are pretentious in content and awkward in execution...
...most prevalent and influential interpretation of the happiness phrase was that fostered by the famous post-Civil War Slaughterhouse cases; happiness hinged on, or was equal to, the right to employ and be employed as one pleased. For a nation in the awkward stage of its industrial adolescence, this was a fortuitous interpretation indeed, but it did little toward finding the ultimate definition...
...almost superfluous, however. For as the heiress, Mathilda Hills is superb. She does everything right, with her sweet, shy smile that can instantly freeze to a frightened, embarrassed grimace. This is one instance in which it is the real praise to say that the actress is halting and awkward, for with her clumsy goodness Miss Hills creates a memorable character...
...York, the Daily Worker, which has been having the devil's own time trying to find a party line to follow, significantly hedged its bet last week. After an initial hesitation, the Worker had firmly called the new regime "the Malenkov government." Last week, in a classically awkward phrase, it urged Eisenhower to meet with "heads of the Soviet state like Malenkov...
...before group tutorial, History and Literature was the only field offering tutorial for all, and even now boasts a well oiled and eminently successful system. With small groups and usually dedicated tutors, there are few complaints. But the assignments are generally quite stiff, and poor preparation is made doubly awkward by the scorn of fellow tutees, most of whom have not only done both the assigned and suggested work, but have read voluminous commentary for free...