Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odd Job. In London, an industrial accident-claims tribunal heard a claimant's case, ruled that he "is fit for suitable work which does not involve standing, sitting, bending or lying down...
...Jimson] is really a genius . . . He is a highly intelligent actor, but he simply lacks the demonic force to fill out a personality as large as Jimson's [Nov. 24]." I can't help thinking back a few years to when my late, demonic-forced husband, Robert (Odd Man Out) Newton, wanted to play Joyce Gary's hero. He was constantly being told he should and was trying to raise the backing. I just couldn't help wondering which way the review would have turned had Newton raised the money first...
Behind that door, black laths hung down like macabre pennants. Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...
...singlehanded, he has accounted for the postwar popularity of the German art song. On his U.S. tours, he has held audiences rapt through the whole of Schubert's song cycle Die Winterreise and through the complete Schumann Dichterliebe. He has reached an even wider public through his 40-odd LP recordings, including Hugo Wolf's 16 Songs, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Brahms's German Requiem, albums of Mahler songs...
...ironic token of the complete reversal of the social hourglass, he lives with the daughter of his former porter. He is mocked and ridiculed. A kind of Suffering Servant, he does odd chores for his neighbors. One morning, in a Moscow trolley, he feels suffocated, tugs vainly at the window for a breath of air and dies short minutes later of a heart attack-buried alive, as the first-page parable foretold, for lack of the vital air of freedom...