Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very ordinary young man-quiet, soberly dressed, dull. He did not take much interest in politics, or international affairs, or indeed anything except sex and the weather. His name was Franco, and his passport said he was a European. It did not sound as odd as it had done eleven years earlier; in 1973 no one would have thought of introducing himself at a cocktail party with "Hello, I'm a European." People were French, or English, or German, or Italian. Never European. The only people who used the word in those days were Americans, who invested geographical proximity...
...odd that the first U.S. television production of America's greatest play comes from England, but even the most rabid "Buy-American" fanatic can welcome this import from Britain's National Theater. It may well be the most interesting Long Day's Journey since the original New York production...
...avert a major catastrophe, a task force headed by Alameda County Assistant Director of Civil Defense William Hildebrand is trying to work out a practical plan, and hopes to finance it by obtaining funds under the Federal Disaster Act. Besides jurisdictional disputes (30-odd separate local and state authorities are involved), there is one major hitch: the money is available only when a disaster is "imminent," and federal officials say that danger of a conflagration in August or September does not meet that requirement. But if the necessary preventive measures will take up to six months to complete, how much...
This is a jeweled music box of a show: lovely to look at, delightful to listen to, and perhaps too exquisite, fragile and muted ever to be quite humanly affecting. It is a victory of technique over texture, and one leaves it in the odd mental state of unbridled admiration and untouched feelings...
...Student Fieldman program appears to be a purely technical proposition. Its sessions concentrate on media and campaign organizing, on the logistics of canvassing, registrations, candidate's campus appearances and recruitment. There is not a single time slot scheduled for a discussion touching on ideology, that odd notion which fills the heart of any good political organization man with scorn...