Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing that I find an unresolved problem is the non-reaction of the Department," Klein says in retrospect. "They had made two decisions: a promotion to associate professor, which was a unanimous decision, and then a unanimous decision to recommend me to the ad hoc committee. I find it odd that the Department in no way reacted." Klein thinks that the chairman could have appealed the verdict to a new judge, President Bok, who took office a month later...
This year members of Waterloo's black community were riled by the story, and expressed their feelings two weeks ago by marching 30-odd strong into the startled teacher's classroom and announcing they would not leave until she was fired. Mrs. Hayes was given the day off, and later agreed with school officials that she should be temporarily relieved of her duties. The black protesters accepted this and left school...
Beside Paschke, relatively straightforward Chicago surrealists like Kerig Pope seem serenely traditional. Pope's Two Infants Observing Nature, 1962, with its odd transformations of vegetable, flower and corncob into a glossy wonderland of Popsicle colors, is a confectioner's version of vintage Max Ernst. It could serve as a visual text to Pope's views on Chicago's painting and his own: "The thing that interests us and delights us is the strangeness of the world, its surprises and mysteries, the impossibility of explaining it. I don't go along with science when it looks...
Norah (Shirley MacLaine) is rich, divorced, anxious, a woman fighting a losing battle against becoming a matron. A familiar enough character, but one with an odd quirk: Norah has an uncommon affection for her younger brother Joel (Perry King), who lives in a shabby flat in the middle of a forbidding Manhattan slum. "Why do you live down there with those people?" Norah nags, but Joel only grins...
Artifactually, Magog is one of two wooden statues in London's Guildhall. The other statue is Magog's brother Gog. Symbolically, they are London's janitors. Mythically, they are the survivors of a race of defeated giants. An odd couple whose meaning is obscured by the mists of prehistory, they suggest the dual nature of a single being. Brought up to date by the English novelist, playwright and historian, Andrew Sinclair, Gog and Magog come to signify the haunting memory and failing desire of a geratic Britain...