Word: eccentricism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If the Nazis hadn't existed, moviemakers of the '70s might have invented them. The whips and whimpers, the glistening boots, the macho marching songs, the sado-chic -my dear, the divine decadence. It's all so terribly cinematic. Cabaret and The Night Porter set the stage...
Some have tried to 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...
The GSA also objects to the article's suggestion that gay people are "eccentric," "weird" or "pariahs," Benjamin H. Schatz '81, former GSA president, said yesterday.
Others of Diana's kinsmen made their mark in worldly affairs, many as great statesmen. George Washington is an eighth cousin seven times removed, and through the wife of an eccentric American great-great-grandfather, Diana is related to Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Millard Fillmore...
THE STORY, like so many American tales, begins with a California eccentric. Nurtured on the mysterious elixir of sunshine and smog, Californians serve as a national test-track, measuring fads, products and ideas by their unique--and often contagious--standards. The sage of the tax revolt, touchstone of the most...