Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Foreign Relations Committee who seemed to enjoy what was going on was Chairman William Fulbright. Which was understandable, since the three experts invited to testify at his marathon foreign-policy hearings were his personal choices. The mission of the three-two psychiatrists and a psychologist-was one of the oddest in years: to put U.S. foreign policy on the analyst's couch...
...crime for a married couple to receive nude photographs of themselves in the U.S. mail? Last week that question got the Supreme Court involved in one of its oddest obscenity decisions...
There weren't but a dozen of these psychic cripples in the building when the power failed, but more trickled into the Yard at a steady rate. And the oddest thing. When they found out the Library was closed, it seemed to destroy their wills. They just sat down on the grass. By dark there were more than a hundred, scattered across the lawn like so many pigeons. Eventually a cop had to come and make them leave...
Because Faulkner only rarely gave interviews about his work, never permitted journalists to pry into his private life, and refused to play the celebrity, the press made him something of a myth-laden enigma during his lifetime. The oddest myth of all is that Faulkner was a recluse in his classical Southern mansion in Oxford, Miss., and found company only in countless demijohns of bourbon while he wrenched out his primeval and difficult prose...
...HAAS. Bubbling over with her usual enthusiasm, Kitty breathlessly speaks of the "mad, wild things" she is selling in her new shop on 42a Brattle Street. (A fire on Dec. 31st destroyed everything, so she has begun again from scratch.) Kitty prides herself on her fabrics, imported from the oddest countries. What she calls her "new, darling designs" turn out to be merely a modified and more sophisticated A-line. She has a shepherdess's dress complete with plunge which should be interesting. Kitty and her "fantastic seamstress" will make you a cotton dress ($25) in ten days...