Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weirdest proclamations in his extended career of weird utterances, Adolf Hitler last week fired Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and himself took over the job of Commander in Chief of the German Army: "When the Führer on Feb. 4, 1938 assumed commanding power over the whole armed forces, this was done out of concern for the then threatening military struggle for the freedom of the German people. "In addition, the realization of an inward call and his own will to take upon himself the responsibility weighed with the statesman Adolf Hitler when he resolved...
Without the aid of weird musical effects and somber, "arty" camera angles, "Ladies in Retirement" packs as much terror and suspense as a dozen of Hollywood's more pretentious spinetinglers. There are a couple of shots of mist-covered marshes to lend atmosphere at the beginning, and the musical background does furnish a few minor chords at the right moments; otherwise the story moves along--with its train of sinister over-tones--of its own weight. The effect lies in the story itself, and in some excellent direction, not in the well-aimed camera that has made so many films...
...citizenry (178,000) is an anthropologist's dream. Below the 1,000 Dutch is a weird blend of Javanese, British Indian, Chinese, aboriginal Indian and Bush Negro. The Negroes are descendants of 17th-Century imported African slaves, who live and dress much like their savage forefathers, but still speak a kind of stubborn English.* Surinam produced 615,434 tons of bauxite in 1940, exported all of it to the U.S. The chief bauxite mine is at Moengo, up the narrow Cottica River close to the boundary of Dutch and French Guiana...
...Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, who came into power in a "legal," bloodless coup last month, still has to operate under Panama's weird, elastic, near-totalitarian constitution. Indicated for the new President was a quiet move to discard the present document (instituted by his predecessor) and return to the republic's original, democratic constitution...
...explained in the book. Stylistically, Steig simply lucks the gift of a James T. Farrell for hard hitting narrative to keep the story continually absorbing. Then the plot is neither subtle nor even convincing at times: the idea of a boy in a melancholy mood bursting out involuntarily with weird minor chords, from deep down inside him of course, seems rather a lame attempt to show that this lad had the old jazz spirit in him all along...