Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unquestionably, much of it came from Wernher's mother, an enthusiastic amateur astronomer ("Odd," says Wernher von Braun, "but few mothers are"), who pointed out to him the planets and constellations in Prussia's clear night skies. "For my confirmation," says Wernher von Braun, "I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift...
...picture is all these things too-and more, and less. Like the book, it profits from Greene's instinct for weaving the fictional web, for making life look marvelously complex and always come out even. But life is sometimes very odd indeed, and the story sometimes invites a suspicion that Greene has rigged his game -a suspicion certified by the ease with which the Englishman wins it, and by the oafishness with which the American loses. It is a cheap debating trick, and it cheapens the picture as it did the book. But the picture, in the last reel...
...liberals-so white, in fact, that he is politically a segregationist with a record of opposition to last session's civil rights bill and of obdurate silence on Little Rock and his own state's governor, Orval Faubus. With such a background, Rhodes Scholar Fulbright chose an odd subject: education, and the federal education assistance bill before the Senate...
...London, from its native Australia. As Broadway's first newsworthy Australian play in history, it has its piquant side-plenty of local color, a working-class lingo, accents faithfully rendered by an all-Australian cast. As altogether honest work, it treats understandingly of believable people and of an odd patterning of human lives. But neither a fresh background nor a sound theme can give the play sufficient dramatic pressure or verbal leverage; if there are no false notes to the writing, there are no resonances or overtones either...
...Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets under way. McElroy did not specify which service would operate the weapons system once it was developed, but the split-up of a development project that was, in fact, a single problem seemed an odd way to get efficiency-unless McElroy could find a way to pool the best brains of the Army and Air Force for the project...