Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...THOUSAND THINGS, by Maria Dermoût. Dutch Author Dermoût was 67 when she wrote her first novel. Locale: a strange world she intimately knew-the islands of Indonesia. Curious, bathed in memory and completely original, the book merges white and native existence in beautiful language, washes against the senses like an insistent tropical swell...
...Powell of the Paducah (Ky.) Sun-Democrat: "If you birds have no more respect for your place, or no more judgment than this, please stop sending us stones." Mused amused Columnist Stan Windhorn of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune: "In sheer honesty, we must express an admiration for this curious bit of candor, but from the practical point of view we must confess that it seems a terribly long...
...magnetism? I would like to know how a magnet reaches out and pulls a piece of metal to it." Charlie Kettering was not satisfied with merely asking the questions: all his life he probed for the answers with his pliers, his screw driver, his wrench-and his insatiably curious mind...
...intelligence and previous experience are not necessary, but may help, as will some familiarity with that wondrous machine, the typewriter. A free guided tour of the building will be provided, and the workings of the Associated Press teletype and the nickle coke machine will be divulged to those exceptionally curious...
Among the ruins Dr. Papadimitriou found many clues to the curious practices associated with the worship of the goddess. Though best known to the Greeks as the virgin huntress, she was from earliest times the patroness of pregnant women. Husbands made appropriate contributions, and Diana's priestesses inherited the jewelry, clothing and other possessions of women who died in childbirth. Many of these offerings were found in the silty soil of Vraona...