Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this theme, trying to explain himself to her. In the first and third acts, as the dialogue resonates between curt exchanges and wandering metaphorical soliloquies, the two bicker, muse, pet, and search vainly for common understandings. Their scenes together are separated by snatches of brash caricature in which "three weird sisters" babble deliriously: "Anything, Everything, Nothing, and Something were looking for eels in a tree, when along came Sleep pushing a wheelbarrow full of green mice...
...outer space. This group, the National Investigative Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), has tried for years, unsuccessfully, to get Congress to investigate the U.S. Air Force. The object of the hearings would be to have the Air Force publicly admit what they supposedly have known all along, that these "weird machines" really exist and that the military has suppressed this information because the public is not prepared for so staggering a revelation...
...still almost inconceivable that a large group of intelligent Republican delegates would meet at San Francisco and overwhelmingly nominate a weird and controversial character. There ought to be, there must be, a better way of selecting candidates for national office...
...CULT OF PERSONALITY." He condemned it in Stalin, but he erected one around himself. His clowning, boorishness, shoe-pounding and endless references to buffaloes, wolves, tigers and housecleaners could at first be refreshing, in a weird way. But gradually Khrushchev became, in the words of the French Communists, "too Grand Guignol." Besides, he was stubborn and intractable. There were growing signs that the comrades were getting desperately tired...
...married his secretary (and quickly taught her tennis). Amid all this, Black was alarmed at the Court's bend-over-backward opinions during the McCarthy-era prosecution of real or suspected Communists. One after another, his dissents contained such phrases as "I regret, deeply regret," and "this weird, debilitating interpretation...