Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member Chicago Symphony came next, for its first visit in 13 years. Its conductor, Rafael Kubelik, was in an awkward spot, since the Chicago is not renewing his contract (the Metropolitan Opera's Fritz Reiner will succeed him). But he picked an ambitious program, including Beethoven's Eroica and Modernist Bohuslav Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Kettledrums, and led his musicians in some expansive, grand-manner interpretations...
...Very Awkward." Ike gave up golf for a while on Saturday afternoon to present an old friend, Club President Bobby Jones, with an original Eisenhower: a framed 40-by-32 oil painting of Jones himself, as he looked 20 years ago when he was the nation's No. 1 golfer. Ike had worked on the portrait for six weeks, using an 8-by-10 colored photograph as a model. Jones was awed. "That's really something," he said...
...first time I ever tried to paint hands," said the President in a tone of mixed pride and shyness. "It is very dark around the eyes," he added, thoughtfully. "I'm very awkward." Then he showed Jones a note written on the back of the canvas in grease-pencil: "Bob, by his friend D.D.E...
...Will it be unwise for Congress to change his proposed resolution (see below) on World War II agreements? The President was not one to say that his proposal cannot be improved. But the U.S. would be in a very awkward situation with respect to places like Berlin and Vienna, if all World War II agreements were repudiated. Nor has the President any interest in going back and raking up the ashes of the dead past. His resolution repudiates the idea of enslavement of any people...
...older woman meeting a younger one sees an image of her own lost youth, a little boy blurts out the awkward truth that a tableful of grownups has been avoiding, a house decays, a love dies, a ritual is born. Using the subtlest of baits, Author Pierce comes away with the novelist's prize catch, a bit of life at the end of almost every line...