Word: offbeaters
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...path to the movement, in or out of communes, is often littered with drugs. The Way, an 18-year-old, offbeat and minor theological group now virtually taken over and greatly expanded by the Jesus People, has two staunch supporters in Wichita, Kans.: prominent Lawyer Dale Fair and his wife, who got involved when a Way evangelist helped their daughter off drugs. One of the San Francisco pioneers, Ted Wise, has been so successful with drug cures that he now has a new clinic in Menlo Park. Washington, D.C., movement leader Denny Flanders tells drug users: "You can use drugs...
Tall (6 ft. 5½ in.) and impeccably tailored in blue pin-stripe suits, Luns has a wry, offbeat sense of humor. During one of the Common Market's recent ministerial bargaining sessions, he shocked his colleagues by doffing his shoes and slipping on bright red knit socks. "Makes me shorter and I can think better," he explained. At last week's Lisbon meeting, he slipped off his shoes, revealing bright green socks. Occasionally he sports suspenders decorated with small gold-plated elephants...
...This offbeat approach is also reflected in Church's references to Lewis Carroll, Clifford Odets, the Gershwin brothers and others who do not normally appear in business stories. For instance, Church once began a story about bank closings with the Gershwin lines: "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers/Long as you've got a kiss that conquers...
...responsible was Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb, who spotted an offbeat story in the monthly magazine of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History; the article concluded that wolves howled not to frighten people but to communicate with other wolves. Gelb assigned Schonberg to write a professional critique of the calls of the wild. After listening to nearly an hour's worth of howling, Schonberg issued his straight-faced findings, complete with notational diagram...
...like to think of the feature as a kind of conversation by and about the American community. As such, American Notes juxtapose the offbeat with more conventional subjects. Last week, for instance, the item about a storekeeper so riled by robberies that he let rattlesnakes loose in his shop was more than an oddity; it was a commentary on a frame of mind. This week's account of a union's troubles with its own unionized employees deals with the ultimate possibilities of such a paradox...