Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regional groups with a common outlook, like the West Coast's "funk artists," whose gamy, gutsy assemblages have been shown in many national exhibits. Equally vigorous are half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers and ath-lete's-foot advertisements. The movement's weakness is an adolescent desire to shock; its strength lies in its verve...
...simply that Hawaii is a geographical midway point for a rendezvous with a wife or a sweetheart for five brief days. The expense can be staggering, even though Hawaiian hotels offer a discount to military personnel. But month after month, more R&R-ers (some 7,290-odd) take the long trek to Hawaii than anywhere else...
...serious financial squeeze. Just how bad remains the secret of a handful of top executives who own the company. They are willing to concede that Interpublic will have a loss in 1967, due partly to the paring of budgets by some of the company's 1,600-odd clients around the world. As the head of a new five-man executive committee closeted daily at the company's Manhattan headquarters, Healy has an ax-wielding mandate. "We are trimming companies fundamentally not related to client service," he says. "Eventually we will change the corporate structure, but just...
...about the American opossum: Did anyone else know that an infant opossum is the size of a pencil eraser, while a whole litter of 16 would not fill a teaspoon? Most backward and unfortunate of all American mammals, Mother usually has only a dozen teats. What happens to the odd opossums? They are dropouts...
Inevitably, as the odd-length modules are fitted into the school day, some students find segments of free time hanging heavy on their hands. And that time is often misused or wasted. But most schools that have tried 54 are convinced that its flexibility offers more than enough to match any drawback. The price is high: about $4,800 for a school of 1,000 students. Without a computer, though, even to approximate 54 scheduling for the same school would cost far more-some three man-months of forbidding computation...