Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to a queen, the carnival used to have a fine frenzy, a curious blend of gallantry and frustrated longing. Dartmouth men gladly vacated their fraternities and dorms so female guests could be sedately accommodated. Professors and their wives opened their homes and acted as chaperones to their students' dates. There was a great cooperative scurry to find segregated living quarters. "In those days," recalls Physics Professor John Kidder, "you could go all week without seeing a woman on campus. Then came carnival and women were everywhere. It made the whole place electric." Says another old grad...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
...curious situation, not without a certain undercurrent of irony. The Clash, an English band of four tough-strutting musicians who together lay down the fiercest, most challenging sounds in contemporary rock, has just finished...
...curious twist of fate, which some might call poetic justice, Mexico finally has something that the United States desperately wants--huge reserves of oil and natural gas--and has no intention of obediently giving it away. Experts predict that by 1980 Mexico will be the world's fifth largest producer of oil, just behind Saudi Arabia...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--As the 25 or so curious bystanders sauntered into the 3100-seat Meehan Arena before Sunday's consolation game against Dartmouth at the Ivy League Championships, coach Joe Bertagna stood on the Crimson bench and leaned over the plexiglass...