Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western counterparts. When British Poet Stephen Spender recently told a gathering of Polish writers that what he wanted to see most of all was a Communist, a voice from the back of the hall called out: "You have come too late for that." Soviet-bloc Communism has become a weird conglomeration of Marxist remnants, state socialism with tentative injections of free enterprise, and above all, nationalism. In today's polycentric Eastern Europe, once tightly controlled satellites have developed what De Gaulle might call a Communisme des patries. All this has only exacerbated Sino-Soviet antagonisms. Red China...
...saying that they are hungry for human meat). Smallest is the porbeagle, a toothy rascal that inhabits the North Atlantic and grows to a mere 600 Ibs. There is the slender blue shark, a handsome indigo in color and up to 800 Ibs. of pure ferocity; the weird-looking thresher, which batters its prey senseless with an enormous scythelike tail and comes in an economy-size 1,000-lb. package; and the voracious tiger shark, which reportedly tops two tons-though the biggest ever caught on rod and reel weighed...
ROGER SESSIONS: SUITE FROM "THE BLACK MASKERS" (Mercury). The 1923 music has a weird and unsettling effect, befitting the Leonid Andreyev drama for which it was written; the black maskers of the title are supposed to be the powerful but unfathomable forces that act on man's soul. Three other short, appealing works by Americans (Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, Alan Hovhaness) are played by Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra...
...weird night sessions at Camp David, the President discloses his grand design to his choice for running mate in the next election, Hero Jim MacVeagh, the junior Senator from Iowa. MacVeagh realizes the President is mad. Trouble is, in the light of day the President seems as normal as the next man, and thereby hangs MacVeagh's dilemma-and Knebel's tale. How to convince anybody else in official Washington of so horrendous a truth? As a Pentagon general remarks: "Nobody -but nobody-in this country can tell a President of the United States that his mind...
...PUSSYCAT. This couple isn't so weird but is funny all the same, as a light-minded prostitute (Diana Sands) deflates a heavily stuffed shirt (Alan Alda...