Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road to Laredo has been lined with weird detours. After leaving Harvard, Leary tried to continue his experiments near Acapulco, Mexico, where he opened a sort of Hallucination Hilton in an old resort hotel. He offered to expand consciousnesses at the rate of $200 a month and $6 per expansion; the Mexican government expelled him after two months. He tried unsuccessfully to reopen in the Caribbean, finally established something called the Castalia Foundation on a 3,000-acre estate in Millbrook, N.Y., near Vassar and Bennett colleges. Along the way, he had become very much a religious mystic; the four...
...Hyatt Music Theater near San Francisco to make her debut as a bit-player in a musical Peter Pan but alas, Kathy got panned as Peter. The San Francisco Examiner's Critic Jeanne Miller took after poor Mary Frances as well, with the slightly weird complaint that she was "stodgy...
...Headaches. That job seemed even more unavoidable in the second case, in which Edward Mishkin appealed a three-year New York sentence for publishing 140 weird -little books (Sex Switch, Raw Dames, etc.) devoted to sadism and masochism-typically spiced by scenes of naked girls whipping one another. Mishkin's New York lawyer, Emanuel Redfield, confronted the Supreme Court with a new headache: "Only obscene books can be proscribed. Are sadism and masochism synonyms for obscenity? If so, there is no end to the literature that may be prohibited...
...pioneer, and its closing was mourned more than a century ago by Francis Parkman, a sickly Harvard law student who became a Western adventurer: "We did not dream how commerce and gold would breed nations along the Pacific, the disenchanting screech of the locomotive break the spell of weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would seek to remove all risk from the life...
...Deitch's Ariel is weird: a sprite to be reckoned with. The singularity of his speech and movement gave the production an added dimension...