Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After graduating from high school in Jacksonville, Randolph went north to the promised land of Harlem, which fell considerably short of expectations. He took odd jobs, attended night school at New York City College, and started reading Karl Marx aloud with the same enthusiasm that he showed for Shakespeare. Feeling that he now had an economic explanation for racial injustice, he joined others on the traditional soapbox to orate, as he put it, on "everything from the French Revolution and the history of slavery, to the rise of the working class. It was one of the great intellectual forums...
...week adopted an allocation plan-the first government-sponsored one in the nation in five years. The plan, made possible by legislation hastily drafted by Governor Jerry Brown, is that followed widely across the nation during the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo: drivers whose license plates end with an odd number can buy gas only on odd-numbered days, with even numbers only on even-numbered days. The plan will do nothing to increase supplies, or even to reduce consumption. It is aimed solely at reducing panic buying, and in its first few days, it failed to do even that...
...That odd sound coming from the direction of your dashboard is not your old engine purring, for once, like a silver fox. It's a little tune on the radio with a dash of scat, a hipster backbeat and a lyric that truly glides, laid down in a voice of sweet rough-and-tumble. Chuck E.'s in Love, the most unlikely hit of the season, is fixing to elbow all the disco aside and find a snug niche for itself in the Top Ten. The song proves that despite all the flash and flack, disco still...
...Odd Man Out SAINT JACK...
Much of the current gallows humor at NBC eddies around the relationship of Silverman and Pfeiffer, a.k.a. "the Odd Couple" and "Mr. Tough and Mrs. Clean." By most standards, the two top executives are indeed mismatched. Silverman is rumpled and raffish, a volatile high roller, known for his seat-of-the-pants decisions on programming. Pfeiffer is formal and controlled, a superb administrator, known for her idealism and belief in "high programming standards." Where Silverman's language is direct and often unprintable, Pfeiffer's fluctuates between girls' school ("Oh gosh, gee whiz") and "high...