Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian antipasto rather than an exquisite Mozartian souffle. One of the first-rate voices, the Metropolitan Opera's great comic basso, Salvatore Baccaloni, summed it all up by saying: "It stank, if I say so myself." Said the critic of Novedades: "The performance could only be described as weird. Unfortunately, those who did not attend may have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent Garden or any European capital. Unfortunately his paper goes to bed at midnight, whereas the performance dragged...
...Permanent Fight." From Stockholm came the details of a weird Nazi plan to save Naziism after the war is lost. Count Anton von Knyphausen, for years a German correspondent in Helsinki, said that he had decided to quit the Nazi cause, would gladly tell the Allied world what he knew...
Whether or not they could explain it, the phenomenon itself was an old story to airmen. They have known for some time that mankind has caught up with the speed of sound and is being catapulted by the airplane into a weird, high-speed unknown which plays some very strange tricks...
Should Grandmother Die Alone? In the fantastic world of which Author Seghers writes, this strange story does not seem fantastic. For Transit is filled with the weird reality of the flight of thousands of refugees to U.S. consulates that wielded a power of life & death over them. Day after day the refugees stand in endless lines, waiting for the precious documents with their bindings of red tape. Incessantly they discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they...
Problem of Evil. For Herriman's creatures, neither animal nor human, the scratchy, tersely subtle drawing, the hog-Elizabethan talk and supralunar world of Krazy Kat were entirely his own - a new private universe of fantasy, irony, weird characterization, odd beauty. It looks as simple as daylight, this illimitably varied, unchanging little comedy about the noble-souled, loony, amorous Kat who loves to have his bean creased by the brick that malicious Ignatz Mouse loves to throw, while Dogberryish Offisa Pupp, the stolidly distraught embodiment of the Law, tries, and forever fails, to stop the brick. The predicament...