Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal, "that my destiny lies in the field of social reform-and I am happy in it." To those who know the cool and acid-tongued Richard Austen Butler well, the philosophic tone of the first part of that remark must have seemed odd; Rab Butler has shown not the slightest sign that he has given up hope of one day living at 10 Downing Street. But no one could have taken issue with the straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer, and last week, from...
...Britain's Harold Macmillan. To a crowded House of Commons last week, Macmillan dramatically announced that he and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd would fly off to Moscow Feb. 21 for a ten-day state visit. In Paris Macmillan's decision aroused grumbles that this was an odd time for a British Prime Minister to decide to accept an invitation which the Soviets first extended to Sir Anthony Eden 2½ years ago. But U.S. leaders raised not a peep. Having just played host to Mikoyan, they were scarcely in a position to complain. And they felt no need...
Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous...
...Hanging Tree (Baroda; Warner), another "psychological western," is based on the rather odd premise that the American West was won on the consulting couches of Vienna...
...student university. A hit-or-miss poll of 500 Cantabrigians showed 52% against the addition. Literary Scholar Eustace Tillyard, master of Jesus College, called the plan "pernicious," added with scorn and resignation that ''mere flesh and blood do not reject the bait of a million pounds odd, nor does common human decency care to incur the odium" of insulting Sir Winston. Last week, while opponents kept a sullen silence, invitations were sent to 20 architects to compete for the honor of designing the new seat of science...