Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is an odd, shrewd book, whose quality is suggested by the reader's strong feeling at the end that Sheed's only real mistake was to quit writing about 200 pages short of his natural stopping place...
Waiting for her there is her husband Barry, who has been holding their 30-pound son Danny for the 40-odd minutes it has taken Court to beat Kerry Harris 6-2, 6-2 in the second round of the tournament...
...nonpartisan lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley, Methuselah-like longevity, and Burt Bacharach and the Reader...
...laugh is a rebellion of notes across the lightning. She turns and runs, her legs pumping and pumping; kneading the wet air. The obscured faces, this odd race called man, flash past her, more swiftly than the tumult of raindrops...
...odd suggestion that the Ford family build a Medici-like palace in downtown Detroit, though the observation prompting it--that one source of urban problems is that the American rich are a national upper class rather than a group of local coteries--is an astute...