Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huggins might also have been describing his leading man. Born James Baumgarner in Norman, Okla., Garner grew up on a farm he "hated," rode two miles to school, on horseback, and took pot shots at odd jobs (traveling salesman, oilfield worker, the Merchant Marine), which he always quit "when I got bored." He drifted to Hollywood, where he helped his father lay carpets, modeled bathing suits for Jantzen, and returned to his home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner...
...David Bronstein is no rabbi but a pastor, and the 100-odd members of his Chicago congregation, almost all of them born Jews, call themselves Hebrew Christians. Their group is the first of five organized Hebrew Christian churches in the U.S. (the others: Detroit. Philadelphia. Miami and Los Angeles). In 1934 David Bronstein founded the Chicago church-not formally affiliated with the others-out of a feeling that "I was chosen to bring the Jewish people to Christ...
Until recently, Blake was popularly known as the man who had somehow managed to lodge a handful of poems, such as "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright," in children's consciousness. The fact that his Tyger symbolizes, among many other things, the French Revolution, seemed typically odd, as did his hatred of churches and of the Industrial Revolution. But Blake's angers and oddities gradually cease to annoy as his radiance grows more apparent and his honors increase. Items: ¶The year's many Blake exhibitions in British museums had their climax in last week's display...
...Trimmers. Whatever is wrong-or right-with children's books is mainly the responsibility of go-odd editors, only a dozen of whom are men. A literary agent who has worked long in this field says that "with a few possible exceptions, all of them are slightly nuts." Many of the editors are former schoolteachers or former librarians, and there appears to be a bond of rare sympathy between them and such organized groups as the American Library Association. A.L.A. issues a bimonthly list of "approved" children's books for the "guidance" of its 21,000 members. Since...
...Wind Instruments, Op. 26 (Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet; Columbia) and beyond. Eight of Boccherini's Quintets, sparkling with gaiety and glowing with warm Italian exuberance, have been polished up and lovingly presented on four LPs with two more to come (Quintette Boccherini; Angel). All of Haydn's 80-odd Quartets were planned for recording, and 47 were put on vinyl by the Haydn Society before it went down to noble defeat (1955) and had to go out of business. Almost all of Beethoven's chamber music has been recorded and most of Mozart's (good recent Mozart...