Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, Frasconi always keeps an eye peeled for unusual wood. He needs a lot of it, since his U.S. -born wife and sons, Pablo, 11, and Miguel, 7, also do woodcuts. The boys often bring home odd pieces of driftwood from their play, and such scavenging sometimes pays off in inscrutable ironies. A battered board that floated in from the Sound ended up in the Lorca series, conveying by its grain the harsh grandeur of the Spanish earth...
...Army squad that Foreman follows to Sicily, to D-day and France, and finally to the Soviet zone of Berlin. In Sicily, Hamilton spurns Betty Grable pinups for shots of Soviet recruits. "I'd like to meet a Russian G.I. sometime, some day," he moons. His odd fixation presages the picture's climax-a senseless knife fight between Hamilton and a Russian soldier (Albert Finney), who slay one another in the ruins of Berlin...
...innermost heart of Russia-if there were any such thing." He finds a village and an old woman named Matryona. Slowly sketching her life, Solzhenitsyn presents her as a symbol of ancient Russia, oppressed by czars and commissars alike, but still waiting for fulfillment. "She was considered 'odd' by her sisters," he concludes, "a laughingstock who was so stupid as to work for others without pay. She never accumulated property against the time of her death. A dirty white goat, a crippled cat, and rubber plants were her only possessions . . . We all lived beside her and never understood...
...their first bemused look at a Roman Catholic Mass by watching television coverage of John Kennedy's funeral, and even with the scholarly help of a priestly commentator it was for many a puzzling ritual. There, on TV, Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing stood dressed in odd black garments, droning Latin phrases toward the east" wall of the cathedral, striding from one side of the altar to the other as he ceremonially poured wine into a chalice or read from a black-bound missal. Much of the mystery will soon be modified. Last week Pope Paul VI formally...
...unanimous 8-0 decision (former Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg did not take part), the Supreme Court last week held that jurisdiction over right-to-work issues lies with the state courts. "It would be odd," wrote Justice William O. Douglas, "to construe [the 1947 Taft-Hartley Law] as permitting a state to prohibit the agency clause but barring it from implementing...