Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Associate Editor Frederic Golden has just written a book, Colonies in Space (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), dealing with the next step the success of the Enterprise may lead to. Golden predicts the first space colony by the year 2001. An odd date, that: just one year after the new treaty gives Panama control of the canal...
Around dating bars in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Berkowitz was remembered as a quiet listener who would timidly attempt to join animated conversation, inject a few comments with his bemused smile, quickly be cut out of a group as an odd duck, retreat, then try futilely to strike up a conversation with others...
...high school friends say Berkowitz, once a military hawk who turned pacifist while in Korea, may even have sought release as a conscientious objector (the Army does not publicly discuss such matters). More portentously, Berkowitz's letters began to ramble incoherently, use odd imagery-and he signed at least one letter "Master of Reality." He apparently abandoned some of his religious fervor at this time, began swearing, which was out of character for that period of his life, and became ever more withdrawn and disagreeable...
...Wednesday, this must be Living, the Times's once-weekly, 20-odd-page insert packed with ads and enthusiastic articles on food, wine and related pleasures. On Thursdays Sulzberger's diversion is Home, a similar free-standing section celebrating furniture, interior decoration and gardening Fridays it is Weekend, a guide to entertainment and the arts in the world s capital of culture. Sulzberger stays up late with each of his three night visitors, savoring the recipes, shopping tips and restaurant reviews. The Times, as a new advertising slogan boasts, is now MORE THAN JUST THE NEWS...
...smile for everyone, turning it off only when his sidekick, Jerry Hubbard, ventures beyond the bounds of propriety, Fern-wood-style. Gimble, played by Martin Mull, 33, is the best Lear character since Archie Bunker, and Hubbard (Fred Willard, 33), the dumber-than-dumb Edith Bunker of this most odd couple, is not far behind. Any comparison to Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon is, of course, purely intentional...