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Practical-minded modern Americans have been contemptuous of follies, those curious buildings meant only to charm and delight. But recent architectural fashion has been tending toward the fey, even the frivolous. This winter in the American heartland, form follows fantasy completely: in St. Paul and Galveston, Texas, local volunteers have just finished putting up elaborate municipal whimsies...
...prosecuted more insider- trading cases last year than at any other time in its history, a number greater than all the other districts in the U.S. combined. Last week Giuliani took the lead in investigating a burgeoning New York City parking-violations scandal that has been linked to the curious suicide attempt of Queens Borough President Donald Manes and threatens to entangle the highest levels of city government...
A1940 edition of The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology describes the professional animosity which developed in the empassioned climate: "The psychoanalysists are inclined to consider the academic psychologists curious fellows in no way concerned with the real problems... The psychologists, on the other hand are inclined to look on the psychoanalysts as `mystics' or `cultists...
...find most curious the assertion that my attitude was "selfish." At the beginning of the class, I stated that I would speak for only 25 to 30 minutes, and I asked those in the room. as a matter of courtesy, to stay for the entire period. The courtesy was not only to me but to others in the room, whose attention was disrupted when others stood up to pass them, go out, etc. I said, jokingly, that one could consider this authoritarian, if one was radical; a matter of civility, if one was conservative; and a social contract...
...Make it quick, Old Man. I've got a date with my girl." You listen to him swing from the bottle and feel a white sheet flutter down around your neck. You look at the sheet, the curious bloodstains...