Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genius is reached in pure, disinterested destructiveness, and of that Shaw was the supreme intellectual embodiment in his time and the eager heir of Swift. It is important to note, however, that this destructiveness is mainly directed at sitting birds; the war of 1914 may have come at an awkward time in Shaw's life as an artist-he was 58-but once the world began to destroy itself, Shaw's destructiveness was outdone, he made crazy and unhappy attempts to outpace it, and as an artist or teacher ceased to have much to say. Assimilated...
...book, and given them substance in his mid. He talks and moves and lives with these people; through a series of flashbacks he mentally reconstructs the events which brought them onto the pitching Lake packet. These flashbacks, with their imagined characters interacting with a real one, make for an awkward and difficult movie, but "Thunder Rock" overcomes this difficulty...
...brings a warehouse co-worker (Kirk Douglas), an ambitious self-improver, glib, personable and halfsincere. Putting the best face on an uneasy situation, Douglas enchants the girl with compliments, a dance, a kiss. Then he dashes her by owning up to a fiancée and making an awkward exit...
Bearded, intrepid West Pointer Hood led his troops in the grand manner-and suffered the consequences. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the arm; at Chickamauga he lost his right leg. In the heat of battle, "he was transformed from a shy, awkward young general perplexed by the minutiae of paper work, tactical details and camp routine into a fearless and almost terrible leader who inspired his men, to heroic feats." Unfortunately for the Southern cause, Confederate President Jefferson Davis mistook bravery for generalship, put the crippled Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee in the midst...
...antique treasures to leave the country, but he did not especially care: "Even if a whole arm was discovered we probably would not want to fit it onto our statue because it would spoil the whole effect. A statue without a head and with only one arm looks rather awkward...