Word: freakishly
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...Baker and his course, although he had nothing but contempt for the other students in the class. As he describes them in "Of Time and the River," his novel about his Harvard years, they were pretentious and untalented. He thought they were snobs, and they regarded his eccentricities as freakish...
...Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, who spend their coffin-like existence waiting for the fortune that lies beyond "deceptive rainbows." In the world of the play, icy and sterile as glass, time is stagnant, and escape from the past requires an effort of will impossible for the fearful and freakish. They are a diseased family, the Wingfields, and the illusions that both protect and trap them are like the animals in the glass menagerie, all too brittle and transparent, shattering painfully at their first contact with an "emissary from the world of the real...
...Marc Plaza Hotel had already been thoroughly checked out by the Secret Service, and the Kissingers were quartered in a suite on the 24th floor that had been secured by the agents. (The only unexpected jarring note was the appearance of ten white-helmeted, swastika-decorated pickets from the freakish American Nazi Party...
...staggering but not quite final blow to the death penalty in the U.S. Though all nine Justices wrote separate opinions, the sum controlling view appeared to be that most capital-punishment sentences were cruel and unusual because those few who faced the penalty were singled out in a "freakish," "arbitrary" and "capricious" manner. Supporters of capital punishment concluded that one way around the court's ruling would be to make death the mandated penalty for such crimes as first-degree murder and first-degree rape. Next Monday the Justices will hear oral arguments on that contention. The lives...
...been imposed in the U.S. violated the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause. Though the decision was widely interpreted as ending capital punishment altogether, that conclusion is premature. Three of the court's five-Justice majority keyed their constitutional objections to the "arbitrary," "capricious" and "freakish" choices made by sentencing judges or juries in determining which convicted defendants should be executed. To meet those objections, 30 states have made death the mandatory sentence for certain offenses...