Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That is, I know his name, but none of the critics have come on it yet," Henry proves to be a lonely, lecherous, whimsical, unstable academic hipster in the process of growing old, with an extraordinary talent for becoming the people and things he likes. His friend is an odd presence at his elbow who cautions, encourages and describes him in minstrel-show dialect-a cranky Still Small Voice in blackface who is a part of, and yet apart from, Henry Pussycat/House...
Erhard, however, also senses a need to improve relations with Moscow. Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder has been angling for an invitation to Russia for some time. In an obvious effort to soothe Soviet fears about West German fingers on nuclear triggers, the Erhard government sent a note to 100-odd nations calling for a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Among its proposals was an offer to sign bilateral agreements with Russia and the East European countries for the exchange of military observers...
...that the faint stars called quasars are the most distant objects ever observed (TIME cover, March 11). But challengers remain, and they have by no means given up. Schmidt's colleague, Halton Arp of the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, for example, believes that quasars were ejected from odd-looking galaxies that are, by cosmological standards, virtual neighbors to the earth...
...potential inheritance. To avoid that disaster, argued Gerstein, Mel jetted over from Houston to Miami one June day in 1964, jumped into a white car provided by Candy, drove to a bar near Mossler's Key Biscayne home and picked up a king-sized Coke bottle. At the odd hour of 1 a.m., Candy took her children out for a drive to mail some letters, suffered a migraine headache and went to a hospital, where she received several phone calls from an unidentified man. Meanwhile, Mossler's neighbors heard him scream...
French Academician Francois Mauriac, Nobel Prize novelist (Therese), biographer (Life of Jesus), political polemicist and poet, first became aware of Charles de Gaulle during the long night of German occupation. Unlike many of his countrymen, Mauriac has kept his vision of De Gaulle shining ever since. In this odd book-neither a biography nor a wholly accurate account of De Gaulle's politics but a kind of personal political devotional-Mauriac, 80, tries to explain just what it is about De Gaulle that commands his fealty. He attests that he is not obsessed with De Gaulle, but, unhappily, this...