Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Towing the ungainly barge in her wake, the Glomar Explorer headed for the open sea on June 20, 1974, ready at last to attempt the culmination of Project Jennifer. By about mid-July the odd convoy reached the site of the sunken Soviet sub. The delicate salvage operation got under way. Despite the chop of waves and force of the current, it was necessary for the Glomar Explorer to maintain an almost impossible stationary position, straying no more than 50 ft. in any direction. To do that, the ship dropped a series of bottom-placed transducers, which detected the force...
...youth, the effort to reconcile the truth of outdoor painting with his ambition to make "important pictures" on a Salon scale bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
...each of the women is really his wife Camille in a different pose. Hence the picture's odd disunity: it is a composite, not a "scene." Besides, there are historical quotes: so intent was Monet on this modern fete champetre that he turned the Camille in the beige dress with vertical buttons into a parody, conscious or not, of Watteau's clown Gilles...
...loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...
...task force's mission was an odd one--the professors, John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, and Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, among them, were told to fend for themselves. They cultivated their Far East contacts and encouraged Japanese businessmen and government officials to invest in Harvard. "We must rely on alumni and business contacts--we professors are not businessmen ourselves," Fair bank recalls today...