Word: offbeat
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Obviously used to homework, Sizer is the son of Yale's mustachioed Pro fessor Emeritus Theodore Sizer, a splendidly offbeat art historian now serving as Yale's first "Pursuivant of Arms" (designer of college flags). Himself a Yaleman ('53), the younger Sizer first learned that he liked teaching when he became an Army gunnery instructor, later taught math and English at Boston's private Roxbury Latin School. By 1961 he was an assistant professor, with a Harvard Ph.D. in history and education. More important, he became director of the education school's main claim...
...destruction scarcely hinted at before. And suddenly, chillingly, the two men have switched roles. "I couldn't get along without you," Tony whines. And his manservant snarls back: "Then go and get me a glass of brandy-don't just stand there, go and get it!" Another offbeat episode has Tony and Barrett locked up in splendid squalor, playing hide-and-seek and squabbling like schoolgirls. After that, a final orgy seems tame, even pointless...
...GUEST. A rare performance by Donald Pleasence, repeating his stage role, enhances this film version of Harold Pinter's offbeat, ambiguous The Caretaker...
Feline Charm. Even in his own day, Offenbach was hardly avantgarde. But to Landestheater Director Gerhard Hering, the offbeat choice of Offenbach has a "secret significance" for Angst-ridden Germany. The "aimless and exaggerated prosperity" of mid-19th century Paris, he explains, "seems to bear certain ominous parallels to the Wirtschaftswunder of today." If Offenbach's exuberant music seems "fresh and enchanting," it is because of the swaggering self-assurance with which France's Second Empire "danced over the volcano...
...this year's 280 freshmen, 84% came from the upper fifth of their high school classes, half had college board aptitude scores of 700 or above (tops: 800), 33 had National Merit scholarships. Going beyond test scores, Swarthmore also demands character, asking applicants such offbeat interview questions as "What is your principal shortcoming right now?" "We look," says the admissions dean, "for a kid with a bit of compassion...