Word: odd
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There indeed seem to be. The Rev. Andrew Greeley is, among other people, a Roman Catholic priest, a sociologist, a theologian, a weekly columnist (50 U.S. Catholic newspapers), the author of 40-odd books and, of late, a celibate sex expert. He is an informational machine gun who can fire off an article on Jesus to the New York Times Magazine, on ethnic groups to the Antioch Review, and on war to Dissent. This year he will write his first novel-about Chicago's Irish. "He's obsessive, compulsive, a workaholic," says Psychologist-Priest Eugene Kennedy, a close...
...odd aspects, the situation was not unique. Another recent heart donor at Stanford had been shot. Andrew Lyons, the alleged murderer, claimed in his pretrial defense that the surgeons caused the death. The judge in that case rejected the argument on the theory that the heart would never have been removed if the man had not first been fatally shot in the head. Regardless of the opposing rulings, Stanford Heart Surgeon Norman Shumway is worried that both cases will discourage the use of assault victims as organ donors. The Flores case, however, will be appealed, leaving it to a higher...
...disparate stories and arcane tables. The Milwaukee Journal and Miami Herald, for example, presented a kaleidoscope of summaries, texts, wire-service rundowns and assorted sidebars. The New York Times devoted 31 columns to the event, including four front-page stories and a two-page inside summary of 50-odd documents and records...
...depth of the pessimism is not always apparent; the drop has been interrupted by some spectacular, though short rallies. One volcanic surge that carried over into early last week lifted the Dow Jones industrial average 60-odd points in three days. One reason: heavy selling has depressed prices of two-thirds of the stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange to ten times earnings or less, and investors now and then move in herds to pick up bargains that by past standards seem remarkable. But so far every such rally has quickly run into a wall of selling...
Bach Society subscribers had been looking forward to Carter Brandon's solo performance with great anticipation. Brandon, another of that Music 180 class, proved himself all that he is reputed to be. The Bassoon Concerto is an odd piece of music, but purposefully so--it is carefully crafted to the odd demands of the bassoon. One usually thinks of the bassoon as an "oom-pH" instrument, used for punctuation and bass foundations, but it has a beautiful tone, and is capable of some e startling leaps and bounds. Brandon negotiated the two octave jumps and running sixteenth note passages with...