Word: weirding
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Blind alleys are familiar streets in literary biographies. Writers seem to lose their way just when they ought to be going strong-as Melville, after writing Moby Dick, turned out the weird, confused, unreadable Pierre. Sometimes writers escape quickly; sometimes, like Melville, they are gone for good. But when a writer begins to follow his genius up a blind alley, all that admirers can do is wait and hope they will return together...
...mipt is Dr. Beebe's word, taken from Lord Dunsany, meaning a weird creature...
...committee held this weird exhibition of academic bud-nipping unfair to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy and harmful to Harvard because: i) Drs. Walsh and Sweezy were brilliant teachers, 2) Harvard sorely needs experts on labor and men of unorthodox views to broaden the outlook of its economics department. It recommended that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy (who have resigned from the university) be reinstated...
Five consecutive hits in the last of the ninth inning scored three Crimson runs yesterday afternoon as Pennsylvania dropped a 10-9 decision to the Mitchell nine on rain-driven Soldiers Field in a weird game twice halted by down-pours...
...ascent of the mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori, Mountaineer Tilman admits that he and his companion, Eric Shipton, lost...