Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find nothing useful...
...Dainty June, life without Mother was dismal. An awkward adolescent, she had grown out of her job as a child hoofer. Hungry, she split with her husband, signed on as a marathon dancer near Boston. Just as the stage had been June's nursery, the marathon became her college, and she gives an effective description of one of the weirdest fads of the '20s and '30s. Dredged from the bottom of the Depression, the dancers were "horses" rather than humans, swung on their feet for days, weeks and months-with an eleven-minute break every hour...
AMID the swift social changes and sudden international crises of the mid-20th century, the impatient and the doctrinaire often complain that Congress - slow-moving, operating through committees and compromises -is an awkward antique, a hindrance to national efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with...
...often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane's monsters no doubt have read their Henry Miller carefully and know their cues perfectly. Only their performances are shoddy, awkward, and deserving of the stage manager's book...
...circumstances, Godfrey's performance was peculiarly moving. When he climbed aboard his palomino Goldie to exhibit his amateur's skill at dressage, the demands of a bad hip made him mount like a drugstore cowboy. Somehow, after 30 years of broadcasting, he knew how to turn the awkward maneuver into an exhibition of grace and courage. "These are the things that keep us alive and kicking," he said, as he turned to his little Arab colt later in the program. "I have to come back to see what he's going to look like next year. Thanks...