Word: odd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...considerable lacunae of the case, the speculation about Edward Kennedy's odd, harrowing night revolves about two central questions: Could he have saved Mary Jo's life by seeking help swiftly, as Diver John Farrar, who recovered Mary Jo's body, claims? Was Kennedy trying for nine or ten hours to elude responsibility for her death? Public interest in the case has sometimes been morbid or even prurient but, as Kennedy knows, much of the curiosity is not only understandable but legitimate. Eventually, he will have to satisfy...
Music fans who turned up at record stores to buy The Band's first album, Big Pink, were confronted by a rather odd but decidedly cheerful slip case. On one side were some pastel-colored creatures purporting to be The Band. Though it seemed clear that they had been created by somebody's gifted kindergarten son, the credit line truthfully assigned the artistry to Bob Dylan. On the inside cover, a phalanx of figures appeared?some 35 in all?who turned out to be The Band, backed by most of the members of their respective families. It is characteristic...
...NATIONAL Youth Alliance (NYA) has headquarters in Washington, D. C., but its public emergence occurred at UCLA. Last July 16 NYA kicked off the first of its proposed "Right Power Programs" with a gathering of 500-odd people in that school's Meyerhoff Park. Spokesmen John Hayes, campus leader, and Louis Byers, national organizer of NYA joined David McGinty, head of UCLA's White Student League (WSL) in making the following demands of the university...
...exotic and curiously endearing literary figure. Borges is a poet as well as a prose master. But his most characteristic creations are unique short stories, which he calls ficciones. They can be unmistakably identified by their brevity, clear, laconic style, humor, and dependency on such devices as mazes, mirrors, odd beasts, and men who are really other men. In short, they deal in one way or another with the conundrums of art and identity, the treacherous nature of reality, and the silvered labyrinths of myth and imagination...
...count myself a King of infinite space," Borges seems completely at home with his years and his blindness. By 1955, his sight was nearly gone. "I stopped wasting time at movies," he jokes. But he actually began an intensive study of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse to enjoy the odd lore about monsters and dragons as well as recurrent poetic devices-known as kennings-"whale's path" and "swan-road" for sea. For relaxation he is read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows differently for the blind," he admits...