Word: odd
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first Henry Ford, unlike his grandson, might have thought scholarly Robert McNamara, president of the Ford Motor Co., an odd choice to be top man in either Dearborn or the Pentagon. San Francisco-born, Bob McNamara was a sophomore Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California. He went on to Harvard Business School for a master's degree, taught there for three years after working briefly for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. Although 4-F (eye trouble) during World War II, McNamara wangled a captain's commission in the Army Air Forces, eventually joined...
CLEA, by Lawrence Durrell. Last of a quartet of novels in which Durrell, one of the few real English stylists alive, examines the shifting nature of truth against the sultry background of old Alexandria and through the devious natures of the kind of odd cast of characters that only Durrell can assemble...
...FALL DOWN, by James Leo Herlihy. An odd-lot family and a trusting girl direct their love toward a big brother and lover who pays them back in evil coin. The boy hero is the symbol of all deceived childhood, and the author ranges from the wretchedly seedy to the near lyrical with authority and originality...
...Odd & British Birds. Apart from the high-level gossip, she gives a picture of the astonishing toughness of the British aristocracy. For all the physical grace and fragility that made her famous as an amateur actress playing madonna and nun in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle, in time of war no patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian...
...took," says Lederer, "90 per cent asked 'What can I do about this situation?' After I had spent 18 months answering letters, it dawned upon me that it was odd these people had to ask me. So I started on another book, trying to tell them what to do." This second book, entitled A Nation of Sheep, was completed five days ago in a fourth-floor room of Lowell House's AA entry. He wrote it alone...