Word: odd
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...CLEARLY SEEMS that the entanglement most threatening the University's ability to adhere to its liberal ideal of tolerance is its connection with the Federal government. Harvard's inability to support a radical economic critique--an odd contrast to its ability to employ a good part of the President's Council of Economic Advisers--is an internal failing. But holding a chair open for Kissinger past the mandatory two-year interval implies an unhealthy relationship to the government that carries its own penalties. A Faculty with, to put it charitably, divided interests, is only the most obvious of these...
...strike began three weeks ago when Marseille's new prefect of police, Rene Heckenroth, responded to political pressure to clean up the city by suddenly closing down the 30-odd hotels where the prostitutes took their clients. With that, the girls walked off the job-but not before consulting Lawyer Emile Pollak, who told them to extend their walkout for 30 days. "On the 31st day," he warned, "you'll see what state Marseille wilt...
...Japanese called the Spanish Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, landed at Kagoshima in 1549, he was not quite the first Westerner to enter Japan. But the Portuguese merchants who had arrived before him were viewed with well-bred distaste by the Japanese. What could one make of such odd-colored, hairy, round-eyed barbarians? "I do not know whether they have a proper system of ceremonial etiquette," one Oriental lord wrote of the Namban-jin, or "people from the south." "They eat with their fingers instead of chopsticks as we do. They show their feelings without any self-control...but withal...
...missionaries were more recognizable, being priests (albeit of an odd religion), scholars and men of action. In the next 90 years, Occidentals got a precarious foothold in traditional Japan; they were expelled in the 17th century and did not return for two centuries, until Commodore Perry's expedition in 1853. How did the Japanese see us, as we gingerly landed from our exotic vessels? Such is the theme of two delightful exhibitions: "Namban Art" at Manhattan's Japan Society and, as a footnote, "Foreigners in Japan," a show of 19th century Yokohama prints at the Philadelphia Museum...
...foreigners may be odd, but they are dignified; the screen is full of the charitable assumption that, despite their quaint and bristly appearance, Occidentals are human...