Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ODD COUPLE. One man's wife left him because he is a slob, the other man's because he's a nitpicking neatnik. The jilted men are surefire flops as roommates but roaring successes on Broadway...
Kenneth Keniston was a student teacher at Harvard from 1947 to with two years off for a Rhodes scholarship at Balliol. His career here was capped by a study of thirty-odd Harvard undergraduates showing various degrees of alienation, designed to find out "how they came to be alienated and what it is about our school that alienates them." In The Uncommitted, the book that issued from this study, Keniston supplies both the questions and the answers...
...particularly distressing to those of us in Comstock Hall to read of the proposed hike in room and board for Radcliffe. Not that we are totally out to ruin the Cliffie image of soiled hair et al., but we have been without hot water for three weeks--except at odd hours of the early morning. This has meant lukewarm washings of dinner dishes as well, which does nothing for the desirability of our meals. Before the college seeks to rectify the deficit in its budget, it should perhaps consider the inferior "room and board" it is now giving its students...
...middle-income stockbroker, Prince entered the theater at 20 as an odd-job boy for Director George Abbott, got a lot of tips and contacts from him. When he was 25, Prince and another Abbott aide, the late Robert Griffith, bought an option on a book called 7½?, hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels...
Whirled Asunder. Schlesinger excels at providing the illuminating stray quote or the odd fact that firmly fixes a character in the reader's mind. Here is Kennedy about to appoint Harriman to an ambassadorial post but first sending a trusted friend over to make sure that the old pro promised to get himself a hearing aid. Here is Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turning from a discussion of Red China as the real menace to the West to the question of a new NATO commander, and saying breezily to Kennedy: "I suppose it should be a Russian...