Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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West German politics has been a queer mixture of weakly defined parties since the country's formation fourteen years ago. Konrad Adenauer maintained a continuity of policy only by clever political infighting and force of personality. Ludwig Erhard, the new Chancellor, finds neither political manuevering nor asserting his will very pleasant. But if he is going to change West German policy as much as he would like, he will have to do plenty of both. Opposition to Erhard's ideas is much too strong for him to leave them to their own devices...
...Moore in Philadelphia. Moore pours his venom on everyone: "The Urban League was created to be a beggar. CORE is made up of an infinitesimal number of Negroes and an even lesser number of frustrated whites who are trying to salve their guilt. Half of all social workers are queer...
...definition of a Hungarian as "a man who goes into a revolving door behind you and comes out ahead." When asked why so many top scientists are Hungarian, he explained: "We are all from Mars originally. We decided to infiltrate the U.S. and were sent to Hungary - where some queer people live anyway -to be conditioned for human life." Though addicted to pretty women, as well as to slivovitz and strong cigars. Von Karman never married. He lived with his sister Josephine (Pipo), who managed much of his personal life until she died in 1951. Intimates expected the shock...
...Moscow embassy for two years, and had been spying for the Russians for seven. Vas-sall's superiors, and all but one of the officers who picked him out of 40 applicants for the Moscow assignment, were exonerated by the tribunal, which judged him "weak" but not overtly queer. However, admitted the report, Vassall's young colleagues in the embassy ridiculed his "effeminate" ways and called him "Vera." The passionate Pole soon guessed his secret, and life began anew for Vera Vassall. Eager to share his new conquest, Sig introduced Vassall to other gay types. "I shall never...
...over-France, the Alps, Sicily-and I'd never done any of that before. Now, in Hollywood, someone else would get a new model and maybe I wouldn't-you know. And in the States if you worry about wines, people think you're queer or something." Wagner lives in Rome, which has long since sacked Hollywood. Nearly twice as many films were made in Rome last year as were made in California. It is an O.K. city to work in, but the more or less permanent new Romans seem to give off an odor of being...