Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of soft implosions of self-perception. Janet realizes that she has been denying her impulses as a writer. She is guilty of self-censoring the matter and treatment of her work in order not to embarrass her family or jeopardize her suburban status. She vows that in the future she will make use of hate, envy, lust and fear. But for a woman who believes that art is condensed reality in the way that concentrated orange juice is the essence of a healthy breakfast drink, such a midyear's resolution will scarcely be enough...
Last week he continued his guerrilla warfare by delaying senatorial consideration of William Brown, Richard Nixon's Republican nominee for the chairmanship of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. While the holding action will not prevent Brown's eventual confirmation, it did embarrass Nixon and anger Senate Republican Whip Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, the man who had first suggested Brown for the job. Further, Dirksen continued to block the appointment of Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital, as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Although HEW Secretary Robert Finch has argued for Knowles, Dirksen...
...Elliott, 25, the voluminous crystal-voiced mama of the Mamas and the Papas, now making it on her own: Singer-Songwriter James R. Hendricks, 29; on ground of cruelty (Mama Cass said, "He became more jealous as I became more famous and used to create scenes, throw tantrums and embarrass me in front of my friends"); after 5½ years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...objections, but refused even to consider a proposal to rescind the appointments. Committee member Francis Duehey, assistant dean of the Ed School, said that though he suported many of the parents' objections, he was not going to ask for a vote. "A motion to overturn the appointments would only embarrass three good men," Duehey said...
Because, both in the novel and as her self, Ekaterina Sushkova is intellectually overpowered by Madame Bekhmetyeva, there is a natural tendency to underrate the actress portraying her. It is a measure of Michael Curtin's achievement that Ekaterina-Princess Mary tends to embarrass the female members of the audience with her simplicity and naivete. Perhaps in their defensive intellectual self-consciousness they failed to appreciate that her Ekaterina is the only sort of girl a man like Lermontov could "love," precisely because she would never threaten him intellectually...