Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandoned Unitarian church has been converted into a dining place called the Abbey. The 70-year-old building-where Author Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind) was married-is graced with an elegant stained-glass front window, vaulted, beamed ceilings and a crafted Gothic interior. Though it might seem odd to some that Christians should go to a church for sole rather than soul, the Abbey has been serving capacity crowds. Most favored of its five dining areas: the choir loft, where monk-robed waiters Handel their guests with priestly concern...
...their central administration counterparts across the way in Mass Hall; they're older and less highpowered, and their ambitions in life generally don't extend past the Charles River. Their job is in some ways more delicate than that of the people in Mass Hall, because Harvard's 750-odd faculty members are an eccentric, intelligent, anti-administrative and easily bruised...
...odd moments throughout the week, Ford retired to the small working office beside the Oval Office, took off his jacket, and shuffled through his notes on the vice-presidential appointment. When asked for the names of people whom the President was consulting, Press Secretary Jerry terHorst replied, "He's consulting himself." At week's end Ford was said to be still genuinely undecided. When informed by terHorst that some newspapers were saying that the President had narrowed the field from about 15 to only three, Ford quipped, "I'm glad you told me that...
When not working in class, bolstering Kellerman, living the bachelor life with Towne, scuffling for the odd acting job in low-budget melodramas like The Little Shop of Horrors or TV shows like Divorce Court ("I was the most unabashed corespondent in town"), Nicholson found time to court Actress Sandra Knight. The couple got married in 1962. "We were very much in love, and I took the vows totally at ease," Nicholson says, confessing at the same time to a "secret inner pressure about monogamy." A year later, his only child Jennifer was born...
They made an odd couple-the voluble politician from the streets of Newark and the taciturn Princeton man who worked on civil rights in the Justice Department under Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy. But the two men worked closely with growing mutual respect...