Word: queering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...
...with the long-term "moral purpose" upon which you declare your policy to be based? You rightly demand "a clear and effective United States policy," even at the cost of losing British cooperation. But how can we cooperate with so opportunist a policy as this? Then this queer idea that the British want merely to achieve a balance of power in Europe ! Surely it is because we have interests in every part of the world that we oppose the strong local action so often advocated in the U.S. You wish that our stake in Pacific Asia were heavier because "that...
...smart man," said Psychiatrist Menninger, "who recognizes that all of us are a little queer at times." He pointed out that 70% of the people who have to be fired are dismissed because "of their social incompetence-not because of their technical incompetence. In other words, they can't get along with people-and that is why we can't use them. Yet so many times, of course, they can be helped...
...Nazis. Since 1949, a million ex-Nazis have been re-enfranchised. A dozen pennywhistle Fuhrers are after their votes, but most of their votes will probably go to the extreme right wing of Konrad Adenauer's coalition. Some queer fish have swum into the Free Democratic Party and the German Party, seeking respectability. Until recently they had nowhere else...
Murder or Not? Vercors' question comes up when British scientists discover in New Guinea a large tribe of cliff-dwellers. Paranthropus ("tropi" for short) is a queer chap, human in that he smokes his meat and buries his dead; simian in many of his physical characteristics; a bit of both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...