Word: offbeat
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...scrofulous French novel on grey paper with blunt type."* as Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer might well be described, has now turned up in U.S. bookstores clad in a clean collegiate jacket, tailored at $7.50 by Grove Press, intellectual outfitters to the offbeat, the off-color and the off-limits (in 1959 Grove issued the unabridged Lady Chatterley's Lover). The publishers have so much confidence in Miller's notoriety that they paid the author $50,000 in advance and dumped a 30,000 printing into hospitable bookstores (Scribner and Doubleday, among others, are holdouts) weeks...
Organized Sound. Varèse achieves his effects by recording sounds on tape; then, with the aid of complex electronic equipment, he breaks the sounds apart, amplifies and filters them. He picked up his offbeat skills almost by indirection: his father, a Paris engineer, was so set upon an engineering rather than a musical career for his son that he kept the family piano locked. Varèse studied mathematics, taught himself music on the side, eventually got into the Paris Conservatory as a composition student. In 1915 he moved to New York, soon formed a little-appreciated orchestra devoted...
...Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.).. First of a 13-part series covering offbeat sports. Today: the finals of a national rodeo, from Dallas...
...every Cotillion Room or Maisonette, the city has at least 100 small, usually drab, sometimes offbeat places, supporting all the piano players whose mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called...
Shooting for the Sky. Audacious tinkering is under way at Illinois' offbeat Shimer College, once a University of Chicago affiliate, which is stoutly carrying on the ideas of Chicago's onetime boss, Robert Maynard Hutchins. Shimer accepts bright youngsters as early as sophomore year in high school, lets them move through college at their own pace. They get a B.A. in three years, stay on a fourth year for deeper study before moving on to such graduate schools as Harvard and Chicago. This year, when the Educational Testing Service gave exams to college seniors at its 222 affiliates...