Word: weirdness
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Everyone asks Michael Fridkin '81, who teaches QRA, the same two questions about the job. To the first--"Isn't it weird teaching people your age?"--he says the problem disappeared after a few lectures: "Pretty soon I fit into my role as someone who knows something they want to learn." The second--"Don't you think it's terrible that we pay Harvard so much tuition just to be taught by other students?"--worried him more, but he reasons, "It would be nice if professors taught everything, but a professor would be horribly bored teaching...
...would form, Runge hoped, the nucleus of a new religious cult. The surviving studies for them, like Morning, 1803, are remarkably hard to decipher as doctrine. Yet that blue world of twining blossoms-Runge's amaryllises and lilies are the ancestors of art nouveau-of genii and weird, pale cherubs is so exquisitely designed and rendered with such pantheistic conviction that it attains the force of religious art. The spiritualist urge lasted far into the 19th century. Its last major bearer was Arnold Böcklin-a Swiss, but included in this show by adoption, as it were...
...separate the slurs against the European students in the House from those against homosexuals. I wish that I could do this, but I fear there is a connection that has a sadly familiar echo from the American past. There is a "know nothing" ring to the association of "weird" with "foreign," "pretentious" with "artistic" and "eccentric" with "homosexual...
...list goes on, into the obscure nether-world of comicdom where mere Comic Peasants are hopelessly lost: Swamp Thing, Weird War Tales, Dragon Lord, Moon Knight, Kazar the Savage, Scalphunter, Ms. Marvel, Phoenix, the Black Panther, Captain Canuck (published by "Comely Comix" in Manitoba, Canada), and Doctor Strange--doing combat in "Reality...
...some peculiar way, alcohol has become a convenient way to mitigate public embarrassments. Betty Ford, Joan Kennedy, Billy Carter and others have reported that their unsteady, occasionally weird behavior resulted from drinking. That sort of confession can be exemplary and thus publicly useful. But in others it can also be opportunistic. Maryland's conservative Congressman Robert Bauman pleaded not guilty to making homosexual advances to a 16-year-old boy; Bauman, with his stricken wife standing behind him - her eyes glazed with that I-am-not-here-I-am-actually-in-Chicago look - told a press conference that booze...