Word: eclecticism
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The 29-member team, of whom only 16 are allowed to sail the boat during a race, was chosen from 678 applicants after rigorous tryouts. Among them: eight Olympic athletes, two women who sailed through hurricane-force winds and icebergs in the Whitbread, a world-class weightlifter who coaches the...
The Pope's reading is eclectic: philosophy, history, sociology -- all in the original languages. He will take time for serious fiction and poetry: he knows Dostoyevsky and the other great Russians and has a special fondness for the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He rarely watches TV -- except for a brief...
The Boston Ballet has an eclectic agenda for its 31st season. The company's program includes traditional ballets which feature three radically different kinds of heroines--the betrayed in "Giselle," the doll which comes to life in "Coppelia," and the spunky Kate in "The Taming of the Shrew." In addition...
The 1200 person Ig Nobel audience was made up of an eclectic group of students, scientists, authors and ordinary citizens who were up for something completely outrageous.
; If moral opinion is a subtext in Cole's landscapes, it is the essence of his big historical-didactic cycles, notably The Course of Empire, five large allegorical paintings of the rise and fall of an imaginary state -- by implication, America -- that he did for Luman Reed at the then...