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...Chinese character named Edgar Foo Yung. The character portrayed is so pitifully predictable, it is everything one would expect of a racist caricature. Complete with the requisite trailing pigtail, pidgin English, and tiny stature, he bows and clasps his hands together, preeminently laughable in all his jerky, awkward mannerisms. He is presented as a slimy little man who evilly lusts after the blond heroine...
Occasionally, the candidato turned awkward. After mounting a native paso fino horse in Caguas and finding himself atop an unfamiliar English saddle, Connally experienced a few nervous moments when the mare bounded down a rain-slicked brick street. In Coamo, he told a questioner that if Puerto Rico becomes a state, "you will first be an American, and second you will be a Puerto Rican." Anti-statehooders seized on the statement as proof that the island's cultural identity would disappear, but Connally later recovered, sort of. "You'll hardly know you have it [statehood]," he told...
...life of an artist. But in essence, the very existence of his poems is a resolution of his inner crisis. The poet deserves a great deal of credit for posing his difficult questions with such dexterity. All too often, contemporary poets feel compelled to interrupt fluent verse with awkward interrogation...
...snow. Bootprints squished into the sideyard mud on a warm day two weeks ago are still there, fossilized, sandy brown, ugly to look at and awkward to walk across. The detritus of the fall season -a ruptured garden hose, a squashed tennis-ball can, a broken-off ax handle thrown away in a fury-surrounds the house as such junk always does in New England at this time of year. But the lovely, deceitful covering of snow that should hide it all until April, that should lead the eye across the sloping ground of the pasture, then into the woods...
Davis said he does not know the contents of the letters. "I felt a little awkward about reading them," he commented. "They were kind of personal...