Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foreign capital, Rosenthal got off to a fast start by putting an end to the endless round of staff conferences that had kept his predecessor deskbound. Instead he began to prowl his new exotic beat-and he found stories just about everywhere he went. One of the strangest local stories in recent years came to him in just this casual fashion. Lunching one day with New York City Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, Rosenthal asked about the public image of New York's Finest. Not good, admitted Murphy, and he gave an example. From the public's fear...
McCarthy and Welch were only the leaders of the battle: some of the most vivid scenes center around their allies, cohorts, and lieutenants. Ever present beside McCarthy, sitting close at his elbow and whispering constantly in his ear, is one of the strangest participants, Roy M. Cohn. In one scene Counsel Welch is cross-examining one of McCarthy's assistants about where a "doctored" photograph which McCarthy introduced as evidence came from. Welch inquires sarcastically if a "pixie" brought it in, and Cohn leans over to whisper something in McCarthy...
...Norman Thomas Socialist who views U.S. society from "the most pessimistic point of view" and whose interpretation is "bleak and grim." He admits that his "moral point of departure is a sense of outrage." His book is barbed with generalizations about "the strangest poor in the history of mankind." It suffers from poorly drawn examples that often fail to punctuate his points. It jumps with startling hyperbole and flaccid statistics; he says, for example, that there are some 50 million poor in the U.S.,* but admits this may be an exaggeration. Yet when he writes of the poor...
They were some of the strangest creatures ever to cavort upon a stage, those ballerinas in George Balanchine's 1946 ballet, The Four Temperaments. Swaddled with shreds of drapery, bodices bandaged with ribbons, they seemed like cats' playthings, a ragpicker's delight, a macabre masquerade of Martians. Only a slippered leg or two revealed that they were real live dancers, panoplied in fantastic dress by Surrealist Kurt Seligmann. But it was natural that Seligmann would design costumes for diversion. His art always cloaked anatomy in fanciful clothes. In costume design or painting, he could easily subtract...
...undergraduates at Stanford several years ago, curious and date-hungry electrical engineers in the name of research plied a hundred-odd students with dozens of questions and fed the data into an old IBM 650. Individuals were not only machine-mated but rated as to closeness of compatibility. Strangest match was an 18-year-old freshman paired with a thirty-fiveish divorcee mother of three...