Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very clumsy and awkward," and "he seldom took up anything without dropping it or breaking it ... It is difficult to understand how he succeeded in shaving himself . . . He could never learn to dance in time .. ." He had a sharp eye for beautiful women: "Usually when we walked past a rather attractive girl, he would turn round, look at her again sharply through his glasses, and laughed or grinned when he found that I had observed him. He was very frequently in love, but usually only for a very short time." He never married...
...mother's accession automatically became Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Grand Steward of Scotland, the Duke of Edinburgh has no change in titular status: he is still simply the Queen's husband. It is an awkward and difficult position. His last predecessor was Victoria's German-speaking husband, and Britons took a long time getting used to Albert. Philip, born in Corfu and once sixth in line for the Greek throne, is a great-great-grandchild of Victoria and Albert, like his wife. A British...
...Shadow. He called himself a "very ordinary person"; it was not easy for him to be a King. His health was poor, he was shy and awkward, he stammered. His youth was spent in the shadow of his comparatively dashing elder brother. Of all King George V's sons, Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, known to his family as "Bertie," was the most unassuming. To his formidable great-grandmother, even the date of his birth-Dec. 14, 1895-seemed inauspicious: as 76-year-old Queen Victoria noted in her journal, it was the 34th anniversary of the death...
...keeping with the Guthrie-Gerard ideas, the first-act set was starkly simple, most of the workers' costumes drab blacks and greys. Carmen herself was allowed some strikingly low-cut dresses, but-hallowed tradition or not-no red rose. Also missing: the awkward parade of supers into the bull ring in the last act. Guthrie and Gerard show a balcony full of spectators craning at an imaginary procession to an unseen ring. Moreover, they let the betrayed Don José catch up with Carmen in the tawdry hotel suite of Toreador Escamillo, instead of at the gates...
...seem a shocker, especially to Catholics, but it is no dirty-minded, adolescent scrawl. Rossi, a precocious youngster who was himself kicked out of a Jesuit school at 14, sometimes makes hero Denis sound and feel older than his years. Occasionally both author and hero show their immaturity in awkward, self-conscious yammerings about life. But as a picture of an adolescent agonizingly in love, or even as a simple love story, Awakening is done with enough skill and taste to establish Author Rossi as the Flaubert of teenagers...