Word: offbeaters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winter's Tale (Paul Winter; Offbeat Records). These songs "for happy people with happy problems," composed and sung in various dialects by Disk Jockey (and onetime philosophy teacher) Paul Winter, take some savage and often hilarious swipes at diverse targets-among them Schopenhauer, Orval Faubus and the Organization Man ("I am a team man. . . I get my steam, man, from that doll Normie Vincent Peale"). Among Winter's best: a "film clip" from a Brief Encounter-styled British movie entitled The Heart Is a Desperate Delicatessen; a monologue in which Producer "Boris Ishtar" rages at his star, "Rock...
Though his tax program sounds like orthodox Fair Dealing, George Docking has made a political career out of being an offbeat Democrat in Republican Kansas (he regards himself as "a kind of cynic," likes to read Voltaire, Swift, Defoe). The son of a prosperous Kansas banker, Docking sold bonds for a few years after his graduation (A.B., economics) from the University of Kansas in 1925. Eventually he went into the family banking business, took over in 1942 as president of the First National Bank of Lawrence. He played his first political hand in 1952, as money-raiser for Adlai Stevenson...
...best Revue had to offer was a split-level pair of cafe comics named Mike Nichols, 26, and Elaine May, 25, whose satiric thrusts at the telephone company's "Organization Woman" were fresh, inspired stuff. Nichols and May also did a racy, offbeat skit called "The Dawn of Love or The Moon Also Rises in an Automobile!" Scratching her ear and nervously shoving her sleeve up and down her forearm, Elaine admired the "suicidally beautiful" lake while Mike talked of other things. "Every human being has got certain natural urges, and I've got some," he began...
With Pete Akers and Boom-Boom Reynolds for brainstormers, the Sun-Times developed a rare knack for offbeat reportorial ventures, such as a hard-hitting and successful campaign to secure the release of a Roman Catholic priest who had been imprisoned for four years by the Chinese Communists. But Reporter Reynolds was unable to win staffers' loyalty, and showed open distaste for the way Larry Fanning and business-minded members of the Sun-Times cabinet ran the paper after ailing Publisher Field had a nervous breakdown last year. Managing Editor Reynolds turned down Field's face-saving offer...
...began the final exam for one of the most popular courses at Amherst College -Religion 22. Students were not particularly surprised: Episcopalian Professor James Alfred Martin Jr. is celebrated for his offbeat exams. (Once he directed students to write TV scripts for the program You Are There at the Council of Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian...