Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev is as guilty of the crimes of Stalinism as the men he has unseated; on the record, he is no "liberal" Communist, but a man who has stolen Malenkov's "liberal" program and then indicted Malenkov as a reactionary. But the odd thing about Khrushchev, in a land where no man has a free vote, is that he is a man busily running for office...
...Calabrian village of Presinaci, whose 100-odd mud-floored houses swarm with flies, black pigs and naked children, the Mafia leaders, in his telling, were a loutish collection of bullyboys dedicated to thievery, twisted honor and senseless violence. But the ritual they practiced was ominous with medieval significance. One night in 1941 Serafino Castagna was taken to a dimly lit hut for induction into the order. His arm was ritually slashed and his blood sucked by all the members present. With his wound still throbbing, he took the oath: "I swear by our noble ancestors, the Spanish Knights Osso, Mastrosso...
...coming of Hitler made it impossible for the community to continue in Germany. In 1936, a year after Eberhard Arnold died, the 150-odd members of the Sannerz group (which by now included Swiss, Swedes and British, as well as Germans) found refuge on a farm in Wiltshire, England. World War II set most of them on the move again, when the community was boycotted because of its pacifist convictions and all those of German origin were threatened by internment. On a couple of months' notice, they set out for Paraguay-the only place they could find that...
...players held forth at the Provincetown Playhouse and the Beachcombers' Club was packed with hairy-chested writers, has staged a postwar cultural comeback, is now an oasis of abstract painters, most of them clustered around Manhattan Mentor Hans Hofmann, 75, whose summer class this year numbers loo-odd. Talk of the town: a lighthearted deviation from orthodoxy by one of the founders of abstract expressionism, Robert Motherwell, who is showing 32 line drawings of a nude model. ¶ East Hampton, Long Island's hard-driving avant-garde rival to Provincetown ever since the late Jackson Pollock moved there...
...members of the Normandie Avenue Methodist Church's congregation remained solidly white, and the 30-odd who went to services regularly were cool to the few Negroes who dropped in. Thirty churchgoers are not very many. In the hope of increasing church membership. Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy of the California-Arizona Methodist Conference decided to give Normandie Avenue a Negro pastor. District Superintendent Ray W. Ragsdale appointed 39-year-old Nelson Burlin Higgins Jr. A descendant of four generations of preachers, Higgins is a husky ex-athlete who went through Louisiana's Roman Catholic Xavier University...