Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that had been used up in riots was now put to more creative purposes, such as decorating one's room. In these efforts anything went. If the undergraduate had a coupled of Roman plaster busts handy, they would naturally, go on the mantelpiece. Mecrachagum pipes might decorate a table, odd signs on the walls, and if the resident could afford one of the new upright planes, he could be rightly proud of his interesting, if overstuffed, room...
...Richmond this week, two museums were showing the work of an odd painter named William James Hubard, who died there in 1862. Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan...
After ten years of experiment, Szondi picked out from the archives of prisons and insane asylums some "typical" photographs of criminals, psychotics and other odd mental types. He has 48 photographs in all, divided into six sets. Each set of photographs (see cut) contains the face of 1) an epileptic; 2) a manic depressive in a depressed state; 3) a manic depressive in a manic state; 4) a sadist; 5) a catatonic (completely withdrawn) schizophrenic; 6) a paranoid (active, with delusions of persecution) schizophrenic; 7) a homosexual; 8) a hysteric...
Long since used to his odd ailment, Flynn grew up with the nickname "Tick Tock." He did not think there was anything particularly unusual about it until he read of another case. Flynn served in the Navy during the war, and Navy doctors suggested no cure...
...machine with its 4,000,000-odd "adherents" that copes with this worldwide problem of spiritual and material logistics is a very different organization from the little band of inspired amateurs who first surrounded William Booth and his wife Catherine. And the faith has mellowed, if not changed...