Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed obvious from the U.S. Senate press gallery back in 1959 that those 100-odd characters milling about and orating down below were just searching for some author to package them up in a novel. So Newsman Allen Drury wrote Advise and Consent. Of course there was a sequel-A Shade of Difference-but now the troubles have started for Novelist Drury; he has begun to write about ordinary people. They are the nice upper-middle-class inhabitants of Greenmont, Calif., a summer colony 6,000 feet up in the Sierras. Greenmont is slightly more exclusive than the U.S. Senate...
Quincy House has not only taken on this odd melange but battled against a leprechaun-sized stage and an orchestra with two three brass instruments for every stringed one. It acquits itself honorably, but it does not quite...
These conventions are designed to break the emotional relationship between the audience and the actors--an odd way to produce a play which deals so exclusively with the power of emotion. Springs Awakening shows three children maturing under the opposing stresses of natural passion and of the strict morality of their parents. The central figure is Melchior (Howard Cutler), an intelligent young man who does not know what to make of his maturity. It leads him to questioning, and to atheism, where his friend Moritz (Toby Hurd) passes through posture after self-pitying posture spilling forth poetic gibberish...
...Daisy on the first leg of her seven-week Latin American good-will tour. Stopping for a day in Manhattan, the lass submitted to a press conference at the Danish Consulate, where reporters started asking whom she's been dating lately. "That's a bit of an odd question," she sniffed. There were other nosy queries, but at last they were done and the searing TV lights went off. Gasped Daisy, better known as Princess Margrethe, 25, who will some day be Queen of Denmark, of the Wends and the Goths, Duchess of Slesvig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsken, Lauenborg...
Spontaneous abortion in sheep and beef cattle seems an odd subject for study by a New York City pediatrician. But Dr. Alvin N. Eden of Wyckoff Heights Hospital has been studying it, and he thinks that his colleagues ought to do the same. The wriggly microbe, Vibrio fetus, which is one of the most common causes of animal abortions, he reports in the Journal of Pediatrics, is probably responsible for a similar, and hitherto generally unrecognized, venereal disease...