Word: odd
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...which they so depend for precisely the same attitude. Many Irish Americans understandably don't feel this way, of course, and Hispanics and other minorities may regard the sceptered isle with vast indifference. But on the whole, affection for the Crown is intense here. This may seem odd, given America's origins, but it is so nonetheless, and the reasons for it go way beyond the sharing of language, history and customs. For all the occasional yipping that has occurred between the two countries, the truth is that they like each other. And although this scrap of embarrassing...
...certain disgruntled writer, Orlando, and half a dozen other tourists find themselves shipwrecked on the island of the Enu, a very odd little South Pacific island. The men wear nests in their hair, where clever birds roost-"feathered superegos" who do the thinking for the hominoids when problems get knotty. On the head of King IT the 42nd perches the imperial vulture. His Majesty, built like a sumo wrestler, rides in a mobile throne on the back of a 300-year-old sea turtle, painted every color of the rainbow, which carries him at a 1-m.p.h. crawl...
...NOTEBOOK: Despite the 20-odd run cushion. Musselman threw four strong innings, working his way out of jams in the seventh and eight...Martelli took a day off from catching and moved to right field in place of Donnie Allard, who is recovering from a pulled muscle. With Lennon and Maspons splitting the duty behind the plate, everyone on the Crimson roster has now played up north. Incidentally, Lennon also banged out a fourth-inning triple before homering (calling the shot before hand) in the sixth HARVARD (28) ab r h bi Schaper if 2 3 1 0 Schindler...
Life in such isolation has odd rewards and odd drawbacks. Yale's Strebeigh asked one oldtimer named Horace Binnie whether he ever wanted to see anything of the world outside West Falkland, and he promptly said, "No." Then he thought for a minute. He had often heard beautiful music on his radio, he said, but he had never actually seen a concert. "I think I'd like to be there," he said. "I'd like to see a real good opera singer...
...example, everyone kowtows to the millionaire, even on an island where his money means nothing. In Hazel (1961-66), a normal middle-class family can find, afford and need a servant-and not because the mother is working or has more than one child. In The Odd Couple (1970-75), two men of a certain age can live together, in traditional masculine-slob and effeminate-fussbudget roles, without an automatic assumption that they are homosexual...