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...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...
...Black Egg. Naturaly this does not endear little Benjy to the dirty-fingernail set in the schoolyard, but Benjy has his reward when his Good Fairy shows up. An offbeat sort decked in a baseball uniform and chomping an outsize cigar, this Good Fairy grants Benjy's only wish that "whatever big and marvelous things happen to little Benjy . . . will happen to his dear Mummy, too!" Months pass, and nothing happens until one day Mummy and Benjy drag sulky old Daddy out on a picnic. Benjy spots a giant black egg. and Daddy tells him not to fool around...
Explained manager and Part-Owner Ernie Tannen: "After inspecting our electronic navel, we decided we had grown too fast and too big to keep on being just a Negro outfit." WILY found that its mesmerizing music and offbeat programs were attracting up to three times as many white as Negro fans. So WILY, after filing new call letters with FCC, became what Tannen believes to be the first Negro station to move into the general market...
Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room (Elsa Lanchester; Hifirecords LP). A fey, offbeat collection of songs both sprightly and shivery by the apricot-haired English comedienne, with tongue-in-jowl introductions by husband Charles Laughton. The selections range from Fiji Fanny, a raucous burlesque of the songs the trade calls "grass-skirt numbers," to a haunted, spine-crawling ditty titled If You Peek in My Gazebo, which tells the tale of a mad New England spinster who sits each evening in a summerhouse on the hill secretly watching the lusty young village bucks stroll...
...stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite first-week jitters, technical flaps, occasional lapses into tedium, and a mummer's parade of station-break plugs (Dorothy Kilgallen, Billy Graham, Coty Curl-Set), it looked as if Comedian Paar...