Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaten track 60 miles northwest of Rome stands one of the strangest witnesses on earth to man's love of the curious and bizarre. Near the Villa Orsini at Bomarzo is a whole sculpture garden of beasts and ogres carved from volcanic rock (see color pages) on the site. Rarely has sentiment taken a more bizarre turn. Created in the 1560s by Duke Pierfrancesco ("Vicino") Orsini, the sculpture garden was meant not only to astonish and delight, but to serve as a memorial to Orsini's deceased wife...
...platypus is the most touchy, temperamental, unpredictable animal," says Australia's David Fleay, and he should know. Called "the platypus man," Fleay is the world's leading authority on one of the world's strangest animals, and the only man who has ever made the furry, duckbilled, egg-laying protomammals breed in captivity. Last week Fleay was grooming two juvenile platypuses for shipment to New York's Bronx Zoo, and he hoped that they would travel...
...strangest operas ever put on vinyl is Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's Moses und Aron (Columbia, 3 LPs), which is partly a music drama based on Exodus, partly a musical essay on the nature of God. The opera's fascinating conflict develops between Moses, whose heart knows the Word his tongue cannot utter, and his brother Aron, who speaks glibly but substitutes for Moses' harsh and humble vision of God the opiate of a comforting father figure. To Aron, God is joy, to Moses He is awe. Moses' anguished faith can admit only...
...Indiana Cyclone." His case history, as told by Dr. Chapman, is one of the longest and strangest in medical annals. For 40 days in 1954, Lamphere kept the State University of Iowa hospitals in turmoil. He had arrived complaining of anguish from pain in the left chest; he obviously had phlebitis with clots, and he coughed blood. He demanded and got a narcotic to relieve the pain. He had uncanny knowledge of the location of his veins, was suspiciously familiar with hospital routine. He tyrannized doctors and nurses, was described by a resident as "obese, obtuse, obstinate, obstreperous and obscene...
...Some time ago," he said, "I had the strangest premonition, the strangest urges, and even against my will I was compelled to change my name ... I had a slight accident. I had concussion. And my body was actually taken over by the spirit of an Easterner...