Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many foreigners this seemed a bit odd, for by this time Britain had a squabble of her own with Chile and Argentina concerning some overlapping claims in Antarctica. Moreover, the Argentines and British were (and still are) counterclaiming sovereignty over the tiny Falkland Islands, 300 miles off Argentina's coast. But faith in British fair play survives, and in 1964 both countries agreed to let Elizabeth II finish what her great-great-grandmother started. Under her ruling, which has just been published, Argentina gets a carefully defined 71% of the disputed area, but in Chile's minority share...
...odd thing is that this simple-minded formula works. It may be of limited interest to non-Bretons that the author was "the first Lebris de Kérouac ever to go back to France in 10 years." Or that he "had come to France and Brittany just to look up this old name of mine, which is just about three thousand years old and was never changed in all that time, as who would change a name that simply means House (Ker), in the Field (Ouac)." Yet the bounce and burble of Kerouac's gusto and dropout grammar...
...larger slice of the federal pie. After the state legislature blocked his attempt to gather all the city's transportation functions under a unified leadership, Lindsay achieved part of his goal with an executive order. He now aims to regroup most of the city's 80-odd departments and bureaus into ten superagencies. Before bothering to obtain legislation, he has already created six such superdepartments, covering transportation, housing, health services, human resources, recreation and cultural affairs, and finance. This week formal legislation will be introduced in the city council to implement the reforms fully. Other controversial proposals...
Trade books make up the third and most uncertain domain of the publishing landscape. Still, 250-odd firms are now in this field-perhaps because it offers by far the most intellectual excitement, perhaps because it is so easy to enter. Anyone with a manuscript and a few thousand dollars can do it. In 1951, the Witkower Press, a one-man, one-book publishing house in Hartford, Conn., brought out Arthritis and Common Sense, and has since sold over 250,000 copies...
...adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical book editor as "an odd blend of schoolmarm and Jewish mother...