Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...careers-you sigh nostalgically that today's generation has no adventurous, imaginative lads ready to seek the weird heights, far away from the stereotyped big-company jobs. Well, your . . . generation has substituted oafish earnestness and the plodder's mentality for ability, brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing...
...submit that he is not. And while I certainly do not believe that a man should be blamed for his pathological character, I do hope that the people of Wisconsin will assume the responsibility of revising their weird senatorial contribution to the state of the nation...
Truth or Consequences. The enormity of the record last week brought a weird squeak from Commissioner John B. Dunlap, new boss of the bureau. In a speech to the National Press Club, Dunlap warned investigators to lay off lest the public lose confidence in its tax collectors and stop paying taxes. The time has come, said he, "when all of us ... had better draw back and think of the consequences." When this statement brought some tart comments, Dunlap cried foul. He said that his speech should not have been quoted because it was made on an "off the record...
Director Albert Marre has given about as weird an interpretation of the Weird Sisters as has ever been devised. The witches go through enough earthy comedy to preclude them from being "Fates," while they appear so often in such strange places as to make it impossible to believe that they are the mere psychological manifestations of Macbeth's character. They cavort with the drunken porter, dive into secret trap-doors in the stage, finish the play with an incantation which was never written by Shakespeare (or if it was, is ordinarily wisely omitted), and generally make such a nuisance...
Robert O'Hearn's stage settings are modernistic in their simplicity and most effective when combined with some very unusual lighting effects. The costumes, except for those of the Weird Sisters which are completely incomprehensible, were not elaborate, but in keeping with the simplicity of the production...