Word: offbeaters
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Severe immunological vulnerability poses some tricky medical problems. "Specific infections can be treated," says Internist Henry Masur of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "but the person will usually just come down with another infection two months later." Masur has seen homosexual patients be sieged by bacteria, fungi and offbeat viruses, all in quick succession. "Why this group has something suddenly wrong with its immunity is a mystery...
THERE'S A CERTAIN sense of security that comes when the guy who taught you Fiction Expos publishes his first collection of short stories and they turn out to be offbeat, readable, even provocative. All those thesis statements adequately supported, specific active verbs and logical transitions produce a warming glow, a feeling that, after all, God or John Harvard or at least Richard Marius must be in his heaven...
...else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march the teams through a schedule full of offbeat surprises-terrible hitters suddenly erupting in orgies of homers, for example...
Gaddes cannot readily explain his success with the offbeat. Perhaps his apprenticeship at the Santa Fe Opera -the prototype of the innovative summer company-has something to do with it, as well as his urbane salesmanship. Gaddes also credits public interest in the exciting young singers who have appeared with the company and admits that the BBC's telecast of the 1978 Albert Herring raised the company immeasurably in the eyes of opera-hungry St. Louisans...
Kenneth Uston, 47, is an American success story: Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Yale, Harvard M.B.A., a former senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, who in 1975 quit his $50,000 job to follow an offbeat, not to say raffish, entrepreneurial dream-and made it work...