Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children in My Lai in 1968 fresh proof of the immorality of the entire Viet Nam involvement. The war's supporters on the right read in the verdict a repudiation of the valor and honor of all American fighting men in Viet Nam. If the alliance was odd, the effect might be odder still. It was too soon to be certain, but there was seemingly a new readiness, born of disgust and weariness on both sides, to hasten the end of American participation in Indochina...
Calley first heard the news of President Nixon's order releasing him from prison on television; as he left the stockade, one of the 50-odd cheering onlookers remarked: "Now at least he's not a prisoner of war in his own country." Removing Calley from the stockade had an enormous symbolic effect, but it will not change his life all that notably. To his dismay, all beer and liquor were removed from his apartment. He has a permanent MP guard in the apartment. He may leave his home only under escort, to eat at an Army mess hall...
...private income and has worked without delight as a teacher, a failed novelist and a junk sculptor. "I resorted as little as possible to welding," explains the hero of Frederick Buechner's ruefully funny new novel, "but used balance wherever I could or the natural capacity of one odd shape to fit somehow into or on top of or through another-entirely autobiographical, in other words-the idea being to leave the lover of my art (of me?) free to rearrange it with love in any artful way he chose. Permanence was the enemy, and no one, least...
...this year's first 268 students, 42 had top College Board scores of between 700 and 800, but another 28 got in with low scores of 300 to 500. Hampshire invites applicants to submit "anything that can tell us something about yourself." Last year it received hundreds of odd ities ranging from homemade rugs to loaves of bread. The winners were chosen, says Admissions Director Van Halsey, partly for such personal qualities as "a tolerance for ambiguity, a lot of self-confidence, and some self-direction...
...trying to certify his manhood in what he believes to be the black man's terms that submission was soon out of the question. So was the magazine article he had intended to write. But by the time that became apparent, Toback and "J.B." were good friends. This odd book is a fascinating chronicle of that very tense, and-for Toback-challenging relationship...