Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realized that fairy stories are really much too good to be left entirely up to the wretched treatment they receive from story-book writers. So, striking a blow for the adult world, he made Beauty And The Beast. And after the first half hour of sustained suspense, horror and weird doings, it is obvious that the basic material is not fit for juvenile consumption, it's too scary...
...Fears & Hesitations. In France, the opponents of EDC and the damners-with-faint-praise are motivated by a weird variety of fears and hesitations. Some despise and distrust Germany, and that overrides everything else; some (including Premier Joseph Laniel, who has made a career these past seven months of political survival) think of EDC as a dose of unpleasant medicine, to be stalled off as long as possible; some think that French sovereignty and pride outweigh considerations of security; some want to toy with the alternatives, or get more concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees...
...slimy sand," said Engineer Willm. "We started the motors and cruised a bit, but the water quickly became troubled. At one point we sighted a loft. sharklike creature. During most of our descent we were surrounded by myriads of luminous points, and we distinguished some weird polyps with translucent tentacles...
...Winner (by Elmer Rice) suggests a playwright ransacking his memory, as though it were a dresser drawer, for bits of plot. The search yields a rather weird assortment: an attractive cigar-counter girl who goes out to dinner with her customers but sees to it that she goes home alone, who is engaged to a married man, who suffers scandal without sin when another married man dies of a heart attack in her room, who inherits most of his money in his brand-new, last-minute will, who has to fight for the money in court, who wins it only...
...previous novel, Shadows Move Among Them (TIME, Sept. 17, 1951), Guiana's Edgar Mittelholzer showed a rare hand at distilling weird comedy from sex, religion and primitive passion. But his new novel (his sixth) is neither weird nor comic. It shows what happens when the laws of the jungle are replaced by the codes of the suburbs, and it portrays with grimness the lives of colored people whose worship of ancestral ju-jus has changed into keeping up with the Joneses...