Word: peculiarities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Standing Committee reached for comment last night argued that the inclusion of black students with voting rights on the Committee reflected their special knowledge of the field and the people in it. The composition of the Committee, said Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, is based on a "very peculiar set of circumstances in which students have, in fact, a certain expertise which the Faculty we had at the time didn't have and couldn't have." Rosovsky, in a telephone interview, maintained that student membership on the Committee creates nonetheless, and "anomalous situation...
...Singapore was hit in 1960, and Bangkok has undergone another siege this summer. The current disease is a viral variant of dengue (pronounced dengghee), a less virulent malady that has some different symptoms (aching muscles and joints, no hemorrhaging). The affliction is sometimes called "dandy fever"-for the peculiar mincing gait of those whose joints have been affected...
...festival's ludicrous Lions Love) sink beneath the weight of aimless stylistic decoration. Le Go/ Savoir features Jean-Pierre Léaud and Juliet Berto sitting around a TV studio engaging in a lot of Mickey Mouse debate about linguistics and mouthing doses of Godard's peculiar politics (the FBI had Bobby Kennedy shot) and aesthetics (Léaud shows striking workers two truly revolutionary films: Lola Monies and The Great Dictator). It may all be dreary now, but in ten years Savoir will have a certain faint curiosity value-kind of like a 1936 Easy washer with...
...although the Rumanians were basically a sound and well-coached team, they had no business reaching the finals in the first place. The ideal Cup match would have pitted an Australian team of Rod Laver, Tony Roche and John Newcombe against the U.S.'s finest. But in the peculiar stratification of tennis players, the Australian stars are classified as full-fledged professionals (as opposed to "players" like Ashe, who may compete for money but are not under professional contract to any organization). Last July, Davis Cup officials voted down a motion to sanction the series as an open tournament...
...Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son born with a veil and gifted with second sight in this American world-a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at oneself through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness -an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts...