Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fact is, says Ellis, 32, "the odd-numbered meters, which at first seem so exotic and difficult to us, are really very natural and a part of the folk culture of much of the world." It was while he was doing graduate work in ethnomusicology at U.C.L.A. in 1962 that Ellis grasped the jazz potential of the complex, repeated beat cycles underlying Asian and Middle Eastern music. With Indian Sitar Player Hari Har Rao, then a member of the U.C.L.A. music faculty, he formed the Hindustani Jazz Sextet to explore musical passages to India; two years ago, he launched...
Ginastera sees Bomarzo as "a man of our time," because he "struggles with sex, submits to violence, and is tormented by the metaphysical anxiety of death." The thesis might be more persuasive if Bomarzo were a less odd and cringing figure, and if the unremitting bleakness of his psychological life were set off against a more robust outward existence. But there can be no doubt that Ginastera has powerfully achieved his effects, combining orchestral wizardry and forceful vocal writing to carve out the contours of jarringly dramatic emotion. As Washington Opera Society President Hobart Spalding says, "The fellow is made...
Steiner has some odd theories about the Jews and their supposed fatalism and submissiveness. But on the whole his tone is ice-cold and almost detached. Scene after scene makes explicit what it must have been like to labor in a camp of death...
...clumsily managed to shoot him self through both calves with a .22 Colt automatic. He was doing his writing at Key West in those days, and "to discourage visitors while he is at work your correspondent has hired an aged Negro who appears to be the victim of an odd disease resembling leprosy who meets visitors at the gate and says, Tse about Mr. you.' " Hemingway and I'se crazy...
...Priestley is a British institution: a word factory who has turned out 29 volumes of assorted nonfiction and 24 novels. Yet each successive effort manages to offer a number of odd little surprises. The first in this novel is that a man of Priestley's age should be at all interested in examining Swinging Britain; the second is that his study makes such jolly good entertainment. The hero is Tom Adamson, a young Australian university professor who has come to England searching for his absentee father. His quest scrapes his sensibilities against the Big Beat, campy pubs, Socialists, Tories...