Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monitoring the Administration: All blocs, including the Fair Dealers, joined in 130-odd congressional investigations, a record in congressional history. Their net effect was to throw light on obscure, muddled Administration policies, and to rout out certain influence peddlers...
Buckley bases his answers on the odd premise that Christianity and capitalism are, if not completely equal, at least inseparable. And like most young absolutists, he empties the baby with the bath. The only way to save Yale, says he, is to have the alumni rise up and quash the "hoax of academic freedom" once & for all. It is all very well for scholars to pursue their researches wherever their researches lead them; teachers have no such right. Says Buckley: "Assuming [that] the overseers of the university have embraced democracy, individualism and religion, the attitudes of the faculty ought...
...helicopter used to be the airplane's eccentric poor relation. It could do a few odd jobs (sea rescues, short-range shuttling), but its high cost and its lack of range and speed weighed heavily against its advantages. The Korean war turned Cinderella into a fairy princess. The helicopter's ability to take off from anywhere and to land almost anywhere made it just the thing for evacuating the wounded, supplying isolated positions, carting specialists and brass around. Most recent and spectacular helicopter mission: landing a full battalion of marines with their weapons on a mountainous front-line...
Like the gentleman she fundamentally was, Sarah kept her promise, and with no explanations to anybody. Bendrix could only believe that she was tired of him, and had taken another lover. He began to hate her and torture himself with jealous fantasies. When her husband became suspicious of her odd behavior, and ironically turned to Bendrix for help, it was Bendrix who hired a detective to watch her. But Sarah was beyond the scope of detectives. Starting from her hysterical bargain with God, she had gone on through the loneliness of suffering, through the conviction that she was a "bitch...
Rarely does a fairy-tale become real. Under the magic wand and lucid metaphor of Truman Capote, however, this odd tale about three old women--all over 60--and a boy who choose to live in a tree-house leaps into true life. Capote's success as a writer (really a poet at times) lies in his gradual revelation of the human soul through humorous colloquial expression and the simple language of the heart. The "Grass Harp", for instance, is a field of tall Indian grass which "sighs" the wisdom of people buried in a cemetery near by. Avoiding...