Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acrid, violent, percussive work, the concerto utilizes eerie chord clusters and precisely graduated effects of drums and cymbals ("Hit the snare at the rim and move gradually in towards the center," says the score at one point) to produce sounds as weird as anything in the world of electronic music. The first movement in last week's performance built to a climax with express-train power. The quieter second movement gained its effect from the almost somnolent alternation of the piano's sinuous theme with the whisper of a drum, the rasp of a snare, the tinkle...
...curls in the Dallas bookstore and shrilled into song: "How much is that book in the window?/ The one that says all the smart things./ How much is that book in the window?/ I do hope to learn all it brings!" They were plugging a novel titled Alpaca, a weird pitch for Utopian plutocracy authored and published by their daddy, Oilman H. L. Hunt, 71, long the fearless Big Daddy to many a far-right crusade (Wisconsin's late Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, Facts Forum, radio's current Life Line program...
...this weird spiritualization of cash ("Money is the root of all good") is perhaps only an outward and visible sign. The real point of objectivism is rousing unembarrassed self-interest. For the best man is a tough-minded egoist, "a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." Firmly convinced that her own one absolute is reason, Author Rand has gone so far as to boast: "I have never had an emotion that I couldn't account for." Less fortunate people...
...spend part of her life on crutches. Despite such relative immobility, Author O'Connor manages to visit remote and dreadful places of the human spirit. In Wise Blood (TIME, June 9 1952) and A Good Man Is Hard to Find (TIME, June 6, 1955), she dealt with weird turns of terror and violence as naturally as if she had observed them on her farm. In her new novel, a kind of horror story of faith, the characters are for or against God with a kind of vindictiveness that, the reader sometimes feels, must make even Him uneasy...
Both Kafka and Orwell might have created the author's weird wine cellar-Kafka so that the flyers might molder in the hallucinatory dark, Orwell in order that they might escape to comment ironically on the world's regress. But British Author Shaw, a stage and movie actor who wrote the book between engagements, describes his characters deftly in the manner of the standard psychological novel. Hans is a latent homosexual who tends his human house pets as a kind of offering to his Fuehrer and his dead, domineering mother. Wilson, the older of the two flyers...