Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard of these odd-looking people," said another woman, peering anxiously around her, "but I had ever seen them before. Wallace is right--these people have to be controlled. They scare...
CARSON McCULLERS should have left her first novel untitled. Its story of a deaf-mute who becomes a confessor for an odd assortment of searching, lost human beings has in my opinion been generally overrated. Her book is good, but it hardly lives up to the promise of its haunting, haiku-like title -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...
...party, if not several lunches and dinners as well. The permutations and combinations of invitations quickly become staggering. Britain's Lord Caradon in one 84-day session squeezed in 96 cocktail parties and 105 dinners. Given that amount of overtime, it is perhaps merciful that the 2,000-odd diplomats assembled in the U.N. do not have much real work...
...Bridge in Saigon, dutifully fills in MACV Form 10. He no longer cringes when his buddies rib him about the re port and his peculiar command-a laudable sign of self-control. For MACV Form 10 is the Geese Reaction Report, and Schreiner's platoon includes 40-odd riflemen and a gaggle of six belligerent geese...
...hearings" were interrupted throughout the afternoon by protests from Rubin and other spectators. "This is not an attempt to find the truth. This is an attempt to smear," said Rubin, who termed the session a "little Chicago," pointing to the 20-odd policemen lining the walls of the hearing room. At one point, another Yippie stood in the audience to ask if he could go to the bathroom...