Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...More vicious than the grownups, they strike with their tiny fangs at the slightest provocation. Mother rattlesnakes do not take care of their young. The rattle is a simple warning, not a love call, and males take only the briefest interest in the females. But male rattlesnakes have the odd custom of "wrestling" together, swaying their heads and bodies with a graceful rhythmic motion. The defeated snake is never bitten or otherwise hurt. Klauber is not sure of the purpose of the wrestling match. He thinks it may have some connection with mating, but admits that the emotions of rattlesnakes...
...INSURGENTS, by Vercors (308 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95). The hero of this odd novel is a weird doctor-poet who puts himself in a state of suspended animation for the good of humanity, or so he thinks. Fiftyish and French but drenched in decadent German romanticism, Egmont no longer practices medicine or writes poetry, but takes drugs and drifts through rooms replete with twisted vines, oddly shaped chemical phials and stuffed animals. As he confides to a friend: "I wouldn't be so bored if someone explained to me what it was all about, here on this planet...
Unhappily, Vercors metaphysical skin-diving never gets much below the level of a mad-scientist movie in this odd tale of a man seeking "the refuge of non-being...
...odd activities on campus, however, none can compete for the average student's attention as effectively as the omnipotent fraternity system...
...broadcast begins with a weather announcement, and then shifts to the George Shearing quartet in New York (Welles' used Brazil and Stardust). Then came the now immortal series of special bulletins telling of a strange explosions on Mars, then of odd masses crashing in New Jersey, and finally...