Word: misfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than adequate, despite the fact that Tenor Ramon Vinay and pretty Soprano Gre Brouenstein showed signs of strain. The chorus, one of the world's finest, performed brilliantly. But the chief attraction, as usual, was the staging. Wieland sees Tannhäuser as a harried misfit in a world of rigid conventions. Dressed in a black cloak (while the other minstrels wear brown), he moves among stiff, almost mechanized people of the court. Preparing for the crucial song contest in the second act-usually staged with casual confusion-uniformly dressed men and women march into the hall...
...despite the disappointing calibre of the rest of the magazine, Kimball's story, also a fragment of a larger work, is an achievement of considerable stature. His subject is commonplace enough: the account of a misfit in a boys' school--this time a Jesuit Academy. But his insight and craftsmanship, together with a remarkable control of language, result in an intensely interesting piece of prose...
...Though misfit glands may cause the very different problem of pseudohermaphroditism (TIME...
...brutal picture, with a core of horror imbedded in its accounts of mere hell-raising. All but one of the principal characters are fairly scarifying as future warriors or even as future citizens. There is a blabbing prig, a conniving misfit, an ingratiatingly evil Jocko De Paris (Ben Gaz-zara), a master of midnight ceremonies violent enough to mean court-martial and expulsion...
...Bazaar, "and I am still liable to occasional relapses." But the American mania for "reading about space travel, time travel, martian maidens and extragalactic supermen is habit-forming, like opium, murder thrillers and yoghurt diets ... [A kind of] apocalyptic intuition [that] the human race may be a biological misfit doomed to extinction . . . may be one of the reasons for the sudden interest in life on other stars...