Word: weirdness
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Kahn has further conceived the three witches--or "weird sisters," as they are repeatedly called--as not only having their own spooky lairs, but also as permeating regular society. Thus they are garbed as wives of members of the court, and are listed as Lady Angus, Lady Caithness, and an unspecified dowager. They often hover on the sidelines, and even take over the small role assigned to Lady Macbeth's servant. It is only in their incantatory privacy that they become obviously witchlike by donning half-masks. (Kahn of course omits the spurious interpolations involving Hecate, the patroness of witches...
...speaker is a delegate to last summer's Republican National Convention, nervously eying a group of weird-looking youths assembled to taunt him and his fellows at the entrance to the Miami Beach auditorium. The listeners are a cinéma vérité team from CBS News, working on a stylish documentary about how one aspect of the big story-the hippie-yippie-zippie street demonstrations-was covered by their colleagues...
such spiritual gifts as the ability to "prophesy" (not predicting events, but uttering spiritual messages from God), the power to heal, and, perhaps most controversial of all, the ability to speak in "tongues," known technically as glossolalia. The weird sounds of glossolalia, a primitive kind of communication, either spoken or sung and without any apparent meaning, disturb Christians outside the movement. Among Charismatics, though, glossolalia has two functions-private devotion and public prayer or prophecy...
...precocious, reclusive, Howard began writing eerie fiction early, nuzzling in imagination up to decay, decomposition and other horrors softer and stickier than a mother's kisses. After a hiatus, he resumed writing in his late 20s, finding a ready market in the cheap magazines of the day-mainly Weird Tales -and becoming the center of a small cadre of writers of similar bent...
...conservative writers often inhabit a realm of abstraction penetrated at times by only vague eminences from the real world. Contemporary affluence has unleashed innumerable ego-trips, not the pursuit of virtue. The California electrical worker making $23,000 a year does not read Aristotle and Kant, he merely does weird things and is all too willing to have his ego tickled by the media into pursuing alternate life-styles...