Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crosby item has on one side a rather effectively weird, or maybe it's weirdly effective, piece by the arranger for the band, Bob Haggart, who calls it "Chain Gang." Tomtoms thump throughout, and there is some raucous muted trumpeting by Yank Lawson, who has heard Cootie Williams play. The reverse is an arrangement for the orchestra of the beautiful piano improvisation by Jess Stacy called "Ec-Stacy," which was recorded nearly three years ago. This remake stars Stacy again, but although it is an attractive, easily swinging performance, it has lost most of the expressiveness of the original, largely...
...standbys like AAA, CCC. FBI, NYA, RFC, SEC and TVA had been around so long that they were now more or less familiar. Anyone who didn't know these initials was out of luck. And knowing them now was no good: most had been superseded by weird new wartime initials. For instance: FCC is less important than DCB (Defense Communications Board), and NLRB plays second fiddle to NWLB (National War Labor Board...
These two books, the first to come out of Russia since the war engulfed the Soviets, shed a strange leftish light on the mysterious spiritual sources that steel Stalin's subjects to fortitude. There emerges a weird composite of child mentality, propaganda hallucination, semireligious selflessness and apparently bottomless intrepidity-a mixture as interesting but alien to U.S. understanding as Tibet...
Josephus and the Emperor is sultry with wars, murders, double & triple- intrigues, early Christians, rape, weird religious rites, living burials and the intangible mood of desperation that pervaded late Roman society. There are memorable pictures of candidly dissolute Empress Lucia, who goes in for young intellectuals; of Norbanus, head of the secret police, who murders Domitian just before Domitian gets around to murdering him. There is Domitian himself, worrying about his place in history; tossing doles to the masses when he feels his popularity waning; plotting how to destroy the last liberties of the Senate. Against these monstrous Romans...
...hectic convalescence period of a notorious overgrown child prodigy and man of letters who finds himself forced to spend a few weeks in the home of a harmless Midwestern family who really didn't deserve it. Between efforts to run his unwilling host's family, a prodigious and somewhat weird literary activity, and a passion for making himself disliked, our hero unleashes a stream of wisecracks and stream a mass of bewildering situations that hasn't been matched...