Word: kook
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...string of meditations. The lull of this rising and falling of register is at times almost powerful enough to obscure the story. Hoffmann marries, has children, comes to love Japanese culture, and eventually becomes a professor, writing all the while. The different planes of the story—Rabbi Kook Street in Ramat Gan, Japan, Amsterdam—drift hazily into one other. When he halts the waves of meditation for more concrete narrative material, the tongue-in-cheek presentation suggests that dabbling in the realm of standard exposition is another of his little experiments. The University of Haifa...
...more competition on already overcrowded swells. And many of the the newbies never learned wave-riding etiquette, which involves waiting for your turn and not cutting other surfers off. But Brewer, who grew up surfing and appreciates the concern, says such generalizing is foolish. "We have this saying, 'A kook is a kook,'" he explains. "If he's out there being an idiot on a paddleboard, he's also an idiot on a surfboard...
...Articles by Joe Klein should carry the label: "Advertisement for Obama - Biden," or, better yet, "Ad against McCain - Palin." Klein's musings on Palin leave readers with the impression that she is a kook for whom only kooks or extremists would vote. I guess he believes that a majority of Alaskans fall into those categories. Such partisan writing is unbecoming to TIME and taints the dialogue that is necessary in an election campaign. Mordecai Berger, Melbourne...
...Pasco, who loosely based her novel Underlying Notes on her fragrance addiction, has boxes and trunks and specially made cabinets all over her house for her perfume collection. She calls herself a "fragrance floozy," but she's no eccentric kook. At least half a million people like her subscribe to blogs like Sniffapalooza and Now Smell This, virtual clubhouses for those who love perfumes, particularly hard-to-find niche brands...
...Wang’s funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Wing Kook Funeral Home in Boston, the director of Harvard University Health Services announced this afternoon. Wang, a junior biochemical sciences concentrator in Eliot House, was killed in a car crash Oct. 7 in the Catskill Mountains of New York. University Health Services chief David S. Rosenthal ’59 said he was asked by Wang’s family to publicize the funeral to the Harvard community. Harvard paid for Wang’s parents, who live in Guangzhou, China, to travel...