Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man named Nathan Weinstein, the manager of a small hotel in Manhattan, suffered a strange and horrible schizo-religious vision. Set down in a slim volume called Miss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933 under the pen name of Nathanael West, his experience was acclaimed as a masterpiece of the peculiar literature of phantasmagoria-a vision of hell on earth, a scream of anguish at the meaninglessness of human suffering...
Concerning Flexibility. "There is no peculiar virtue in the concept of flexibility," said he. "To me, flexibility implies compromise and concession. When applied to fundamental principles-right principles-flexibility is not only without virtue; it becomes a vice . . . Have we forgotten the lessons of the Hitler era, with its compromises, concessions and flexibilities...
...obsession with the illusiveness of reality, and the peculiar sort of structure generated by this obsession, give the author a chance to display his marvelous dexterity in contriving all sorts of ironies and subtleties and stage effects out of the relation between Characters and Actors. He is an expert in gimmickry--indeed, the whole play is really a gimmick, a shell game with reality as the pea. Since he is only a clever intellectual prestidigitator, Pirandello may not deserve his exalted reputation as a dramatic master. But he is a strikingly individual play-wright, and in his way a brilliant...
...Tigers are a peculiar team. They manage to lose to low-calibre teams, then play over their heads against formidable opponents. For example, they lost twice to weak Brown, but scored more goals against powerhouse Michigan State than any Eastern squad, in losing, 7 to 4, during the Christmas tournament at Boston Garden...
...latter eventuality, added almost as an afterthought, turned out to be the critical factor. During the summer it was determined in that spherical satellites also behaved in the same peculiar fashion as the cylindrical satellites. By late September Jacchia had discovered some periodicity in the acceleration of Sputnik II and ruled out change in presentation area of the satellite as a factor. He wrote...