Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallup poll, the peepul's choice (he leads second-place Jack Kennedy by 26% to 19%, but professional Democratic politicians are more unwilling than ever-if possible-to accept him); and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams, and even Oregon's odd Senator Wayne Morse, all liberal darlings...
Souvanna Phouma gave the Communists two seats in the Cabinet, and in return Souphanouvong agreed to integrate 1,500 of his 6,000-odd Communist troops into the royal army. The rest of the Pathet Lao army would be placed in "reserve status," and permitted to return to their native villages, there to create what unrest they could...
...guard on the other demanding that the Queen's critics be drawn and quartered, it has long been obvious that something must give. Last week, a terse, two-sentence announcement from Buckingham Palace tolled the knell of doom for the first innocent victims of the battle-the 800-odd young maidens who each year are ritually presented to the Queen and thereby officially emerge into the best society as debutantes...
...tough for the panelists is the job of Producer Gil Fates, a sort of inverted Diogenes, who must first find "people everyone has heard of but no body has seen," but whose even harder search is for people adept at lying. Fates keeps enormous files of newspaper clips about odd characters, and complete cards on everyone who has ever entered his office...
...good gossip should have no shame, and Angus Wilson has little. In his current, brilliantly readable collection, Wilson has given the dreadful dossiers of about 40 odd types, ranging from pathological spivs to a loony peer. The intellectuals shuffle inside their ideas like men in borrowed dirty clothes. Most of the characters have ambiguous attitudes toward sex, money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London...