Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within. Like Frieda Lawrence's book on her late great husband (Not I, but the Wind; TIME, Oct. 8, 1934), Dorothy Cheston Bennett's intimate portrait of Arnold Bennett last week gave curious readers a worth-while wife's-eye view. Those who found her style awkward, her psychological probings selfconscious, could turn to the second half of the book, where 170 of "A. B.'s" letters furnished a refreshing commentary to her text...
...lived. Author Harriot visited Bonn, pictures the mean airless garret in which little Ludwig was born, the courageous mother who had been a servant girl, the drunken father who kept the boy practicing at the harpsichord for cruel lengths of time. When Beethoven went to Vienna he was an awkward, ill-kempt young man, flagrantly boorish at the fashionable soirées where he would sit down at the piano, pour out one improvisation after another. He wrote with prodigious energy. First came trios, quartets, sonatas.* The first symphony was criticized for what then seemed to be an excessive...
...characters vitiated beyond recognition. Only Anna and Alexei Karenin retain a spark of life; the others are bloodless lay-figures. Least excusable is the mutilation of Konstantin Levin--in the book a sensitive, passionate, inarticulate, self-contradictory idealist, but reduced in the picture to a formal and awkward lover. Frederick March was no more successful with Vronsky, although the part was loss difficult. Even Stiva, Holly, and Kitty were handled without imagination...
...battles, of strategy and the arts of war. When Mr. Austin's Napoleon plans a flank or breaks all the rules by storming a bridge, he seems a real character. When he soliloquizes about his dreams of conquest or his love for his wife, he becomes an awkward myth of history. But, as Mr. Austin says of The Road to Glory, "I defy any person to discover all the faults I know positively to exist...
...Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811, son of a Vermont Congressman, he was educated at Dartmouth, Andover and New Haven, came into conflict with established religion formulating the doctrine of Perfectionism, which held that moral perfection was attainable on earth. This was in direct opposition to prevailing "miserable sinner" Christianity. Awkward, shy, redhaired, Noyes neverthe-less won enthusiastic followers, particularly among women. A period of acute economic distress made a profound influence on him, led him to declare, "Heaven must begin on earth soon, or Hell will...