Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cattle & History. He was an odd politician-he made few speeches...
...portrays psychological abnormality not through odd characters but through characters who seem quite ordinary, for he judges that in every man there is a dimension of disease. In Mr. Arcularis he shows the terror of death through the emotional disintegration of an old man; in The Disciple he tells a weird story of a meeting on Easter Eve between two quiet chess addicts who turn out to be Ahasver, the "eternal Jew," and a reincarnated Judas; and in Bow Down, Isaac! he brings to the climax of murder a story of religious fanaticism and family hatred in New England...
...faced hospital authorities scrabbled through their records to see how MacLeod had gotten away with his fraud. Born in Ste. Cecile, Quebec, he had gone to grade school in Maine and almost finished high school in Ste. Cecile. Between odd clerical jobs he served a hitch in the U.S. Army. In 1941 he rejoined the Army and was assigned to the Medical Corps. Private MacLeod read every medical book in sight, carefully noted the Army medics' talk and techniques. At war's end, self-taught "Dr. MacLeod" felt ready for professional duties...
...bleak, green-walled hall of California's San Quentin Prison one day last week, an odd sort of jury-two murderers, one sex offender, assorted thieves and forgers-solemnly took their places at a table before an audience of fellow convicts. The case before them was an old one: Athens v. Socrates. The evidence: Plato's Apology, in which Socrates defends himself against charges of corrupting the youth of the city, and the Crito, in which the old prisoner refuses a chance to escape...
Died. Arthur Stringer, 76, tireless Canadian-born author; in Mountain Lakes, N.J. He wrote 50-odd novels bristling with danger and hairbreadth escapes; a dozen books of verse; plays; short stories; a biography of Poet Rupert Brooke; several volumes of Shakespeare criticism; the scenarios for The Perils of Pauline, the silent climax-a-week movie serial which made Heroine Pearl White rich and famous...