Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ffrench-Beytagh, a Shanghai-born former hobo and odd jobber with a long-time reputation as a "fighting parson" in Rhodesia and South Africa, is free on $14,000 bail pending an appeal. Because, at 59, he is suffering from a weak heart and hypertension, he figures that if the appeal fails, "I won't come out alive, you know." Thus he is using his time to say farewell to friends...
...last year's cover story on growing American inefficiency, Associate Editor George Church wrote: "An odd thing happened one year after construction started on Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Building: it began to sink into the ground. Air pockets had developed in the concrete caissons on which 'Big John' rested." The story, widely applauded at the time, subsequently won one of the more coveted prizes given for business journalism. Last week Church accepted none other than a John Hancock Award, worth $1,500 and a dais seat at a banquet. The dinner was given-where...
...clear case of the same sort of show biz is another new work in the Jeffrey repertory, Alvin Ailey's The Mingus Dancers, based on a grouping of ponderously orchestrated pieces by fabled Jazz Bassist Charlie Mingus. The work is an odd mixture of five abstractly modern sections and four stagey "vaudeville" routines, some comic, some gloomily Brechtian in flavor. They include a morose parade of grinning soldiers in clownlike, whiteface makeup, a lady from Spain heel-clacking through a campy flamenco, a pair of policemen mock-dueling with nightsticks. The vaudevilles have no discernible relationship to the abstract...
...didn't expect to become known for the rest of my life as a woman hater," said Wylie, but Vipers, he figured, had made the epithet inevitable. "That's the first thing they'll put in my obituary-a woman hater. I certainly was a damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description of Mom as "a puerile, rusting, raging creature" did little to dispel the notion that he was indeed a confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year...
...odd company. Hairy-nosed wombats in southern Australia. Giant turtles on the Galapagos Islands. Polar bears in the Arctic. What each species shares with the others is an improving prospect for survival due to the efforts of a unique conservation organization. That group is the World Wildlife Fund, whose members gathered last week in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel to celebrate with deserved pride their tenth anniversary. From an obscure club of wealthy do-gooders, W.W.F. has grown into a United Nations of conservation, whose efforts on behalf of hundreds of endangered species are felt from Scotland to Sumatra...