Word: odd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looks like a zookeeper's prank: a goat dressed in a sweater of angora. But the odd-looking creature that appeared on the cover of the journal Nature last week is no joke. The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep. Inevitably, it has been dubbed a geep...
...pleasing. It starts low at the Copley Square side, nicely mending the turnpike damage done there, and steps up to the scale of the Prudential building on the other side. The saving graces of the design are three portals, with dramatic glass canopies, and some sizable glass panels in odd places. The panels afford people within the building views of some of the landmarks outside, giving them a sense of place...
...office. The Baha'is also champion world government and the use of an unspecified universal language. But unity, say members, will come only by worshiping God through Baha'u'llah, the prophet who is his "Manifestation" and who revealed God's message in 100-odd books, which were translated from Arabic and Farsi as the creed spread. The Old Testament messianic predictions and New Testament passages on Christ's second coming are seen as references to Baha'u'llah. In contrast to Islam, the Baha'i faith believes in equal treatment...
...side order of applesauce. White's life has unquestionably been blessed, and his biography is strongest when it just records the charming confluence of circumstances and skill that made him one of the most admired, imitated and influential writers of his time. After graduating from college, White took odd jobs in journalism, advertising and public relations. He was, in retrospect, simply waiting for Harold Ross to dream up The New Yorker. Nine weeks after the inaugural issue appeared in February 1925, the first of thousands of White contributions graced its pages. When he was invited to join the magazine...
...arrive in Moscow Tuesday. The statement contained, strangely enough, the Administration's throw-away paragraph usually reserved to excuse bad relations with the Russians: "...the United States has sought and will continue to seek a constructive and realistic dialogue and the reduction of arms." This is a truly odd sentence in a letter of condolence for a leader with whom one has not been able to negotiate at all, unless of course it was meant ironically. It's good to know we will continue to seek a dialogue with the Russians in which the Russians don't talk; but then...