Word: odder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like comfort is once again on the way out. Creases are sharpening, suit materials are stiffening and even thickening. The sugar coating to this bitter pill is a spectrum of new colors--but these colors would make any pill taste sickly sweet. Odd jackets in pink-and-white stripes, odder sweaters in natural-and-vicuna stripes, tight beach pants in canary yellow: the list is horrifying and endless...
...enough to be alive with others, But odder still to have sisters and brothers...
...Ronchamp is architecture as pure image, and few images more powerful or more timeless have ever been placed before the eye. It is strange that a man who has shown so few signs of religious feeling should have produced so awesome a place of worship. But this is no odder than the fact that the loneliest of men should have dreamed of Utopian cities, or that one so dedicated to the machine has, in the end, produced an architecture that scarcely depends on the machine at all. Corbu turned his .paintings into architecture, his architecture into sculpture, until "the body...
...both campaign parties, the correspondents encountered similar (and classic) occupational hazards-scrambling for planes, trains and buses, filing stories from odd places at odder hours, seeking out the nearest shower and jiffy laundry. Both men move fast, Sidey and Meyers agree. "When the candidate stops speaking," says Meyers, "it's time to grab your typewriter and start fighting your way to the bus." Neither reporter had any complaint about the manner in which the press is treated: in each camp, speeches are mimeographed, planes chartered, reservations confirmed and wires dispatched with cool efficiency...
Fandango. No public campus in the country has moved faster in that direction than California's Berkeley, the Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...