Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shows only the small horizontal pull toward the magnetic pole. The compass does not point north, of course. Since the magnetic pole is many miles south of the geographical North Pole, the compass often points almost south. But newly revised magnetic charts allow the navigators to interpret such weird readings accurately...
...psychological abnormality not through odd characters but through characters who seem quite ordinary, for he judges that in every man there is a dimension of disease. In Mr. Arcularis he shows the terror of death through the emotional disintegration of an old man; in The Disciple he tells a weird story of a meeting on Easter Eve between two quiet chess addicts who turn out to be Ahasver, the "eternal Jew," and a reincarnated Judas; and in Bow Down, Isaac! he brings to the climax of murder a story of religious fanaticism and family hatred in New England...
...battalion strung out on the road from Kwangju to Angang. For a while, South Korean troops were on his right. Then suddenly, one night, they weren't. The battalion was surrounded and had to fight its way out. That's routine enough. What was unusual about the weird action was that once out of the situation the colonel discovered that he had lost his G Company. So he and the rest of the battalion had to fight their way back, collect the lost company, then fight their way through the enemy lines a third time...
...annual meeting, the A.P.A. warned-its members not to use dianetics' weird and wonderful technique on their clients.*If psychologists want to play around with it, the association suggested, let them confine themselves to "scientific investigations designed to test the validity of its claims...
Sonny Stiff and Bud Powell, Stan Getz, Lee Konitz and Lennie Tristano (New Jazz LP). These three 10-in. LP records contain the last beads on the lunatic fringe of "cool" jazz. At times the music of these small combos is as weird as a hashish dream or as annoying as fingernails on a blackboard, but they occasionally manage (when the piano rides above the saxophones) some pleasant, if disorganized, sounds...