Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although all 30,000-odd living holders of Oxford M.A. degrees are eligible to vote, ballots must be cast in person at Oxford. Last time, when Graves was elected, not quite 700 votes were cast since, in effect, it is largely the resident dons in Oxford who have a say in the outcome. After weeks of argument at "high tables" and public readings of both men's poetry, the M.A.s filed in their black gowns into the domed Sheldonian to cast their ballots. The sur prise winner at week's end-and Oxford poetry professor for the next...
...keep a Big Brother-like watch on its citizens; with the help of computerized data-storage units in various localities, officials in Sacramento could press a button to check up on local tax collections, highway repairs, personnel needs-eventually perhaps even alimony payments or political contributions. It may seem odd to laymen that space technology can be applied to such earthbound matters, but "systems management," the mastery of computerized complexity, remains the same in principle, whatever the problem to be solved...
...predecessors), he remarked that the response to U.S. peace efforts had been overwhelmingly favorable "except from those who could in fact sit down and make peace." At the same time, cables advising that air strikes might soon be resumed began flowing to U.S. ambassadors in the 40-odd nations that U.S. emissaries had visited when the peace offensive was launched at Christmas...
...house at the house, the story of a doxy with a heart of gold, a taxi dancer who always falls for men who are either too sly or too shy to do her any good. In his weakest script to date, Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) seems to have heard rather than written the gags, and the dialogue is stippled with vulgarities, presumably aimed at the expense account trade...
Like a raffish, somewhat questionable stranger at a bar, this raffish, somewhat questionable book glibly rattles off all sorts of odd and fascinating facts about the manufacture and use of liquor. The word "spirits" was originally applied to the alcohol vapor created during the distillation process. The "proof" of any whisky is equal to double the amount of alcohol it contains; 100 proof means 50% alcohol by volume, the other half being distilled water, coloring and the like. "Proof" originally was a place where gunpowder was tested. Early distillers adopted the term, because they used powder to gauge the strength...