Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry a looped handkerchief on his elbow on which she could rest her hand, after the manner of a carriage strap." Author Woodbury, a onetime anthropologist and a ninth-generation descendant of William Goffe, is the present proprietor of the family mill. He has tied his odd bag of characters together with historical facts, New England folkways and early Americana. John Goffe's Legacy crackles with wit, adds a few asterisks to history, and makes the reader wonder how New England ever acquired a reputation for being stolid and conservative...
...from the confusions of youth are part of growing up. Like a nightmare, the whole perverted episode has not really damaged young Törless-or has it? The boy had briefly "lost his sense of direction [but] an indefinable hidden disgust never quite left him . . ." Readers of this odd but provocative book may wonder whether this sentence does not apply to Old Europe as much as to Young Törless...
...church group, called Divorcees Anonymous, has been at work in Los Angeles for five years. Affiliated with Hollywood's First Presbyterian Church, the organization has a committee of 25, including ministers, doctors, psychologists and laymen, who make themselves available at all times to help any of their 200-odd fellow members. But it is the church itself that seems to be the most help. "I was touched by the look of forlornness on these people," said Hollywood Presbyterian's Pastor Raymond I. Lindquist. "There's no glamour about them, just a climate of failure. You could call...
Undrunk Martinis. Among New York City's 150-odd art galleries, Hugh Stix's Artists' Gallery is unique. Running it as a nonprofit venture, Stix reverses the traditional art dealer's one-for-the-money, two-for-the-show policy, hangs pictures and takes no commission, shows mainly unknowns, and does everything in his power to pass along his discoveries to other dealers. All the drawings in the current show were donated by grateful alumni or well-wishers to celebrate the opening of the gallery's 20th season...
...view, had all turned out unsatisfactorily. "At their mother's funeral," he fumes, "they appeared, wearing gloves!" Nevertheless, the committee decides to go ahead with the fete, dispatches the boys' godfather to round them up. As portrayed by Fernandel, they are an odd lot indeed...