Word: weirdness
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...actor in old age is not King Lear. His poise and vigor are astonishing. If one were to look satirically at Reagan, it would be to see him not as a doddering old man but as a weird presidential version of one of the "action figures" with which children of the '80s play: G.I. Joe, Captain America, He-Man. Saturday-morning TV dialogue emanates from the Oval Office: "Quick, Cap, there's not a moment to lose! The evil Gaddafi is attacking our fleet inside the 'line of death...
...homogenizing effect of their four years in Cambridge. That process begins early in a student's Harvard career. The suggested summer reading for incoming freshman is the Education of Henry Adams, a bible of New England culture written by the same man who complained of immigrants snarling a weird yiddish. (I like to think it was my ancestors who annoyed this 19th century man's sensibilities.) At the 350th anniversary celebration, Charles, Prince of Wales will speak at one of the main convocations, the one dedicated to celebrating Harvard's Anglo-Saxon roots...
Just a few months ago, Lyndon LaRouche was widely regarded as a weird joke. A 63-year-old former Communist, he now lives in millionaire-style luxury on a heavily guarded, 174-acre compound in Virginia, wages fringe presidential bids and is head of an eccentric and paranoid political movement. At airports around the country, his impassioned, clean-cut followers hawk propaganda calling for the quarantine of AIDS victims and accusing numerous notables, including Henry Kissinger and Walter Mondale, of being Soviet agents. But when two LaRouchites posing as mainstream candidates won the Illinois Democratic state primary nominations for Lieutenant...
This may sound kind of weird, but the reason I mention that story is because now, three-and-a-half years later, it succeeds better than anything else at summing up What Harvard Is All About...
...Doubles is usually our strength," Peter Palandjian said. "It's weird that we got swept in two of them. We've got to push things...