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...pure wool. The thoughts of this playwriting youth are the fashionably wrong wrong thoughts about Nuclear Apocalypse, the Bitch Mother, the Castrated Male, the Homosexual Martyr, and the Dehumanization of Everyone. The result is one of those off-bleat stupefactions that make the modern stage look like the queerest wing of a nuthouse...
...says Composer John Cage, "am a hunter." Last week White Hunter Cage's latest quarry was on display at Manhattan's avant-garde off-Broadway theater, Circle in the Square. Even to the battle-scarred ears of the beard-and-ponytail set, it seemed one of the queerest beasts ever found in captivity...
...first half, both teams scored on breaks. Phil Haughey recovered an Abrahamian fumble on the Tufts' three-yard line, and Gianelly bucked over for a Crimson score. In the seond period, one of the queerest plays in many seasons gave Tufts...
...done this thing," the U.S. diplomat says, "and because he has done it successfully, it looks easy. But if he hadn't done it, Italy would have gone Communist." For his past victories (and also for many of his current handicaps), De Gasperi is indebted to probably the queerest political alliance in Italian history, a restless, unstable mixture of most of the colors on the political palette. His own Christian Democrats include monarchists and republicans, rebels and traditionalists, free enterprisers and welfare staters, clericals and anticlericals. It is, in every respect, a "center party," basted together by an abhorrence...
Next to appear on the cover was Leon Trotsky, on the occasion of his return to Moscow from the Caucasus, presumably to be restored to a position of power (TIME, May 18, 1925). "The Russian sky is very large," the story began, "and under it some of the queerest things in history have happened." Describing Trotsky's earlier career as commander in chief of the Red army, it said: "Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Czars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went...