Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed the Massachusetts legislature by respectable majorities. The law provides that no Massachusetts serviceman can be compelled to go to a foreign combat zone in the absence of a congressional declaration of war. Three servicemen promptly volunteered to test the new law, which is certain to make an odd footnote to American constitutional history...
...Camus: dead. Sartre: silent. Malraux: Minister of Culture. The old mullers and brooders, the old definers of crisis, are heard no more in the European novel. For a long time it seemed that there might be no successors. A surprise candidate has now emerged from the wings, an odd figure with a loser's accent and a bizarre past. His earlier books had astonishing power, using dwarfs and drums and scarecrows to explore the nightmare dominion of Nazi Germany and the guilt that followed. To many readers, particularly in the U.S., all this was fascinating. It also seemed very long...
...hrerdogtraptrenches." Often the bristliest bits in Grass's prose derive from what critics refer to as "thing magic" (Dingmagie), those long inventories of physical objects that Grass compiles to retrieve German from abstraction and the swarms of technical terms he uses, mostly derived from his own odd pockets of experience...
Parliamentary Gimmick. Carswell also took a beating when it came out that he had suffered what was at best an odd lapse of memory in testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska asked him in January if he had been an incorporator of the Capital City Country Club in Tallahassee (in 1956, Capital City became a private club to escape a desegregation order). "No, sir," Carswell replied. It turned out last week that only the night before his testimony, Carswell had admitted his incorporator's role to two American Bar Association representatives...
...network television news, ABC employs one black among its 45 correspondents. NBC estimates that of its 60-odd nationwide correspondents about a dozen are black. CBS does not release specific figures. Among magazines, the Reader's Digest has only one black on its masthead, Look five, LIFE five. Newsweek has ten blacks among its editors, correspondents and researchers; TIME...