Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hammer, Nailles' fated counterpart, is literally a bastard. "There is some mysterious, genetic principality," Cheever observes, "where the children of anarchy and change are raised." Hammer carries the passport of that principality. Brought up as a foundling, he becomes an unsettling, sinister figure. Rootless and rich, he is odd in some dreadful way that puts him outside humanity. A haunted, solitary drunk, he seems to epitomize the danger and disorder that lurk in self-preoccupation. A pet cat, or familiar spirit, called Schwartz, suggests that Hammer may be some sort of warlock. But in any case, Hammer sows lechery...
...beached behemoth and the ravens, the Blackshirts and the SS. Out of their few weeks spent getting saddle sores on bad-tempered Icelandic ponies or in rattletrap buses on boulder-paved roads, eating terrible meals of smoked mutton in smokier hovels, Auden and MacNeice re-created an odd and magical journey compounded of poems (satirical, epistolatory and familiar), letters, guidebook information, parodies, private jokes and public protest...
...August 75. Surrounded by 600-odd party leaders at the Kuomintang's Tenth National Congress, Chiang himself sounded the keynote for "overall reform." The President, although as lean and ascetic as ever, must by now know that his dream of a return to the mainland is a hopeless chimera. Indeed, for the past two years the Generalissimo has told his people that the struggle against Mao's regime must be political rather than military. In such a contest he obviously needs a revitalized, rejuvenated party, one that not only presents an attractive image abroad but that can also...
...fringe stand the odd-balls and yahoos, some of whom never get closer to a book than a bet but ready to light the fuses...
...recent months, for the first time in their history, Mademoiselle and Ladies' Home Journal have taken to using Negro as well as white models on their covers; black mannequins have appeared in almost every issue of Vogue and Bazaar for the past year. Of the 100-odd girls employed by the Ford model agency, New York's biggest and best known, a dozen now are black. Other formerly all-white agencies have similarly integrated their rosters, and in the past three months two new agencies have opened in Manhattan to handle black models...