Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Must think it exceedingly odd...
...last sentence of your excellent piece on the Manchester Guardian [TIME, Nov. 4] may have read like a non sequitur to many of your readers, carrying as it does the odd implication that by sending the paper's trust deed to America during the war, the Guardian in some mysterious way guaranteed that the paper would carry on, in C. P. Scott's words, "as a public service and not for private profit." May I fill in the mystery of this non sequitur...
Last week, in the University's musty old Mandel Hall, the first Hoover lectures were delivered before a thousand-odd Chicagoans. The lecturer: liberal, ecumenical-minded Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C. Said Episcopalian...
Beautilities. But Dr. Schlumbohm's gadgets are not for morons only. Nor are they cheap. His dozen-odd household appliances, which are the only inventions he manufactures, look like no utensils in the ordinary kitchen, have been frequently exhibited by the Museum of Modern Art. He thinks this only natural because "If you make a thing as simple and efficient as possible, it is bound to be beautiful." And, he has also found, highly profitable. His sales of Chemex ($3.50 to $12) reached $200,000 last year. His Tubadipdrips ($7.50 and $9.50) and Tempots ($135) should boost this year...
Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...