Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barely disguised story of Fitzgerald's Princeton experience, it made its author famous overnight. The magazines, chiefly the Satevepost, bought his stories at top rates as fast as he could turn them out. Yet This Side of Paradise was far from a great novel. It was crude, snobbish, awkward and frequently juvenile. Critic Harry Hansen exclaimed: "My, how that boy Fitzgerald can write!" But an abler critic, Fitzgerald's old Princeton friend, Edmund Wilson, wrote: "It is one of the most illiterate books of any merit ever published .. . full of bogus ideas and faked literary references . . ." Read today...
Occasionally Joyner's smooth prose breaks down; his sentences become awkward and his writing intrudes into the description...
...reminiscent of W. C. Fields, though his humour is more often bellowed than muttered. Guinness brings an easy-going dignity to the role of Disraeli, and makes a stirring speech in the one brief House of Commons scene. In the part of Queen Victoria, Irene Dunne seems rather awkward and is inclined to sputter, especially when addressing "Mr. Tsraeli...
Lewis handled the English language almost as clumsily as Theodore Dreiser, and with less force; he marshaled as many fascinating minor characters as Sherwood Anderson, but his understanding of them did not approach Anderson's awkward but subtle sympathy. Lewis was a good reporter, with an eye for detail. His mimicry of American speech was sometimes an inspired burlesque; his humor was usually broad enough for a Rotary luncheon...
...ballad of Fray Pedro and the bandit Maragato (in which the priest disarms the bandit and shoots him in the pants), Goya had done his bit toward inventing the modern comic strip. In Bordeaux, he joined a group of Spanish exiles, one of whom described him as "deaf, old, awkward, feeble [but] so happy and eager to see the world...