Word: maladroit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sinners; Diary of a Country Priest and The Trial of Joan of Arc depict a state of grace under pressure. But all his attractive heroes, whether explicitly religious or not, are trudging up their own private Calvary. In Mouchette, the beautifully pitiless story of a teenage outcast so maladroit that she must try three times before she succeeds in drowning herself, the girl's schoolmates sing one refrain as if it were a prayer: "Hope--for more hope." Bresson's films, handmade and precious, gave viewers hope for a more exact, more exalted form of moviemaking...
...1960s evolved into "an orgy of parent-bashing." Although psychoanalysts changed what parental behaviors were "psychotic-inducing" with the capriciousness that designers of their same era changed hemlines, their theories always retained one constant: the mother was at fault each time. Mainstream thinking dictated that "mechanized and maladroit" (so called "refridgerator" mothers) produced autistic and schizophrenic children. Other Rosen-type psychoanalysts would also blame the victims and their weakness to fend madness off. But there were no statistics, let alone control groups to back such theories. Often, all these psychotherapists relied upon was the "power" of empirical observation. One psychiatric...
...political realm, democratic capitalism, having defeated the twin foes of fascism and communism, is likely to face three others. The first is tribalism, as in Bosnia. This is, of course, nothing new. But democracies are often maladroit at dealing with minorities that seek group empowerment. The second challenge will be fundamentalism. Capitalism can be cold, consumption oriented and spiritless, alienating those who feel repelled by its modernity and its materialist values. Some will respond by embracing traditional religions or New Age spirituality, but there is also likely to be, especially in the Islamic world, a more fierce religious challenge that...
...ensemble number with lines like "You gotta pucker your lips,/ Throw out your tush,/ And shake your hips," and choreography to match (imagine a huge egg sticking out its, um, tush); and "I Am Not Adroit at Love," a torch song performed by 2N2N2R6 (Andrew A. Burlinson '97), a maladroit droid who laments, "I wanted his heart but he gave me his mouse...
...However maladroit he could be in conversation, or maybe because of that, Ted liked to put his thoughts and feelings down on paper. In the early 1970s, after abruptly leaving his teaching post at Berkeley, he wrote a long essay that opposed funding for scientific research, particularly in the field of genetics. (The same points appear in the Unabomber manifesto.) In the hope of getting his essay published, or at least publicized, he sent it to columnists around the country...