Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard community is full of theatre nuts. When a quirk of scheduling put four shows in competition last Saturday, three of them sold out and the fourth came within a few seats of doing so. Four shows, instead of the usual three, squeeze into the Loeb this fall and there is talk of doing five in the spring. Only one or two Houses are so moribund dramatically that they won't stage at least one show this year, and Adams House may put on as many as four...
...Mudcat") Grant-and his earned-run average is a so-so 3.22. The Twins do have plenty of power: Harmon Killebrew has hit 24 homers, Bob Allison has 23, and Tony Oliva, the American League batting champion (at .321) has 16. What's more, because of a quirk in the schedule, the Twins won't have to face Sandy Koufax in the opening game of the Series...
...Rowston, 20, is a lanky English lass who had been unhappy ever since adolescence, and with good reason. By some quirk of nature, her pituitary gland failed to shut down its output of growth hormone as she matured, and she kept on growing to a towering 6 ft. 7 in. "I used to feel as if I had two heads," says Ann. "The children were the worst to face. They'd shout 'Lanky!' and 'What's the weather like up there?' and that sort of thing. I wanted to hide in shame...
Consider Tony: within a month he appears in Author Gilbert's big bad book about the auto business in Detroit and in another novel about the same thing, John Quirk's The Hard Winners. In both books, Tony is the handsome, talented but weak vice president who aspires to the top spot in the corporation but is blackmailed and loses out because he is a corrupt womanizer. Then there's Ann. She has grown up from the plain good girl of bad novels published several seasons back and become the lovely, sexy girl Author Gilbert shows...
...that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way." Often, with inexplicable timing, Johnson allowed a benign smile to crease his face during passages not requiring a smile-an unsettling podium quirk that he resorts to, apparently, whenever he gets a notion that his audience may feel he looks too stern...