Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horror to hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak to stand or even crawl. The sight was a shocker in itself, but the real shocker came with identification. The pathetic...
...paintings in all sizes, shapes and colors. The work bore such titles as Sleeper No. 2, Third Theme, 47, Vibration and Rapt at Rappaport's. The color patterns varied from shades of Tabasco red to jellyfish grey; some were done as geometrical designs, others as waving, leaflike forms, weird blotches of black & white, or blazing skyrockets of paint on canvas...
...about the country begging and stealing. After the first shock wore off, he began to like the life. At times his band all but starved, but there were other times when the begging was good and the lepers had tremendous feasts. Author Simeon is at his best describing this weird life in which sudden death, plague and all sorts of violence are regarded as quite normal. He knows his leprosariums, too, and can make it clear why even intelligent lepers often prefer beggars' freedom to the routine of hospitals. Govind finally reaches an asylum where lepers live...
Dwight Eisenhower had a happy birthday (62) and a lively week. He 1) made his fourth foray into the South, evoking a resounding echo of enthusiasm, 2) hit back hard at Harry Truman's weird charges that Eisenhower is an isolationist and biased against minority groups...
...many a gallerygoer, 20th century sculpture is a jungle of confusion, full of weird shapes and ominous words like cubism, futurism and constructivism. But Andrew C. Ritchie, director of painting and sculpture at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, thinks he sees a track through...