Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college of electives, extending to him the paradoxical gifts of privacy and participation, of loneliness and union with the ultimate queerness of humankind. This is because New York is so constructed as to soak up everything without (necessarily) inflicting a single event on its denizens. Which strikes us as odd, considering it is the worst-run metropolis in the world, or at least the most unmanageable...
...POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin Glikes and Paul Schwaber. One of the few books of enduring significance among the 60-odd about President Kennedy published since the assassination. It is a collection of poems, written in grief and occasionally in anger by many of America's most talented poets...
...Dealer Joseph Duveen. His son, Paul Mellon, 57, a perceptive critic in his own right, has assembled a second superb collection of 18th and 19th century British painting. Now it looks as though the younger Mellon will build another public gallery in Washington for his 500-odd works of art, which are now hung in Mellon's various homes except when the paintings go on tour. Last week he appointed Dennis Farr, 35, a curator of London's Tate Gallery, to plan the project...
...fact sheet" to be distributed today to the community's 60-odd families, they declared. "If [Mayor John Ed Collins and [BRA Administrator Edward JJ Logue want us out, they must attempt to throw...
...looked up at a building and there already was a flag at half-mast. I think that is when the enormity of what had happened first struck me." Of the wait in the cabin of Air Force One before the takeoff for Washington, Lady Bird recalled: "It's odd at a time like that the little things that come to your mind, and a moment of deep compassion you have for people who are really not at the center of the tragedy. I heard a Secret Service man say in the most desolate voice, and I hurt...