Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the best stories take a pathetic turn. In A Girl Called Peter, a farm girl discovers herself for the awkward thing she is. No More The Nightingales tells of the seduction of a rich woman by a confident farm hand who treats her "as if she were a tame hen that . . . could not possibly fly." But every few stories Bates varies his tone. Two comic sketches concern Uncle Silas, a village Falstaff, given to "beery winks from a bloodshot eye that was like a fire in a field of poppies." Reminiscing about his youth, when women were "allus...
...which would have horrified and infuriated a proper memsahib of the old school; and few Western women could have attempted it without seeming fantastically silly or fantastically melodramatic. But Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, standing motionless under the Indian sky in her grandmotherly, garden-club dress, just seemed a little awkward and very earnest...
...playmates. She began her days with character-building cold sponge baths. She was tall and awkward, and at Christmas dances she had to wear dresses cut inappropriately above the knee by adults who knew best. When she was 15, for fear of too much gaiety, she was sent to Mile. Souvestre's French school (every girl confessed before dinner if she had used an English word during the day) outside London...
...There is very little action in this presentation, and not all of it can be blamed on the work itself. In Act III, the stage chorus has two long numbers in which it stands stationary, when it could just as easily be in motion. Also, there are a few awkward moments in Act I, when the stage is completely bare and the audience isn't sure whether or not there's more to come...
...makes the myth more enjoyable. The finale of Tchaikowsky's Suite, however, assigns too much force to the Kingdom of Ice scene, causing Pauline Harrop and Robert Lunnon to put excessive power into their gestures. A necessary and remarkable scenery change to the Kingdom of Sweets also demands awkward pushing motions...