Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CRYING OF LOT 49, by Thomas Pynchon (Lippincott; 183 pages; $3.95), the author of V, is a metaphysical thriller in the form of a pornographic comic strip. The heroine, a girl named Oedipa Maas, one day finds her "Chevy parked at the center of an odd, religious instant. A revelation trembled just past the threshold of her understanding, a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meanings, of an intent to communicate." She pursues the revelation, and finds herself involved with a mysterious organization named Tristero. She pursues the secret of Tristero, and finds herself involved with such improbable characters as Stanley Koteks...
...want to direct a play on the Loeb mainstage, you apply to the Harvard Dramatic Club executive committee--a very odd bird indeed. The HDC does not elect the committee--the five-man group nominates its own new members, and only a vote of the club, by mail, against a nominee can defeat him. Before the creation of the Executive Committee last spring, elected officers voted on applications for shows; the club gave up the old structure when it was told (by the students who appointed themselves the executive committee) that the Loeb Faculty advisers would only deal with them...
...American and longtime credit manager for a wholesale drug house. Danny worked in the cosmetics stockroom for $1.65 an hour, quit to find more pay in January 1965. In April, Danny was braced on a street corner by a drug addict who was also a paid police informer. By odd coincidence, the cops swooped down just as the addict shoved a bagful of barbiturates into Danny's hand. Blared Chicago's American: MURDERER NABBED ON DOPE CHARGE...
...after the manic success, there is an odd depression. There is no second concert. Horowitz again withdraws from the public. Almost a year passes before he announces a new concert. The old affair begins anew. Two hundred candidates for tickets bivouac outside Carnegie Hall with sleeping bags and pillows. Again Horowitz begins to feel the old tensions rising. One day he gets a telephone call from a young mounted policeman, with whom he had chatted several times in his afternoon walks. "You probably know more than all of the people in the audience," says the cop. "You studied longer than...
Susan Dubiner's costumes are an odd lot. The noblemen wear something resembling a toga and wigs that look as if they came out of a toy disguise kit. But maybe it's how they wear their wigs, and not the wigs themselves, that seems so ludicrous. At any rate Miss Dubiner's mass-produced fairy outfits serve well...