Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these were questions on which an occasional gathering of excellent but inexperienced laymen would inevitably be uninformed. They did seek advice from their lawyers. But they did not recognize that this was to reinforce innocence with innocence. From some experience I can attest there are few matters on which, odd accidents of individual personality and aptitude apart, the successful lawyer is so hopelessly at a loss and so little aware of that fact, as in the delicate jungle of literary controversy, law and publishing procedure generally...
...council of slatemakers and touted himself as the "strongest" candidate for Governor. He angered the committee further when he said that he might not be able to support the President's war policies in every detail. "I was disgusted," said one member. "It was typical of his way-odd, peculiar and independent...
...done more than any other American composer to promote new and experimental music. For 40 years, before his retirement in 1964 as director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
They're an odd bunch, these canvassers. Not very politically experienced, generally, and not even sure of exactly where McCarthy stands on many issues, they are all devoutly opposed to the war in Vietnam. And they think that working for McCarthy is their way to oppose the war with action...
Musically, Burton plans next to experiment by combining a string quartet with his ensemble. And the other liberated spirits assembled by him have just as many odd new ideas as the leader. Coryell, who likes to incorporate the drone of amplifier feedback into his solos, is seeking new electronic effects such as "a very quiet fuzz tone that suggests a little radio turned up as far as it goes. I see a lot of beauty in distortion...