Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast is pretty high-powered too. Momma is Geraldine Page (you might check today's page one to see if she has won an Academy Award), lecherous poppa is Rip Torn; lecherous spinster is Julie Harris; Wise-guy friend is Tony Bill; big boy himself is Peter Kastner. But strangest of all is Elizabeth Hartman--the blind girl you all knew and loved in A Patch of Blue--as the disco dancer. She shakes, she shimmies. she is the most unremittingly evil person you'll meet all week...
...stares and pointing, and the stories . . . The strangest stories that haven't a word of truth in them, great long analytical pieces written by people you never met, never saw. I guess they have to make a living, but what's left of a person's privacy or a child's right to privacy?" Jacqueline Kennedy's understandable complaint appeared in a rather unprivate place-an article about her, her children and her life since the assassination in the New York World Journal Tribune. The basis of the story was a lengthy interview she gave...
...strangest things happen to air liners in Africa. A BOAC flight into Nairobi once touched down by mistake in the game park just outside of town...
Thus in Peking was born the strangest phenomenon of China's current convulsions: the Red Guards. For the name, Mao reached back to another time of troubles-the civil strife of the '20s and '30s. Mao first used the Red Guard label in 1927 to designate the peasant irregulars who fought alongside his troops in such battles as the victorious assault on the walled city of Tingchow. Later, Red Guards accompanied Mao and his men on the Long March in the mid-1930s to the safety of the caves of Yenan...
...most fervently devout believer in UFOs, not as mere meteoric oddities or psychic phenomena but as the creations of technically superior beings from parts unknown. His evangelistic style is homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...