Word: odd
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Reunion etiquette is actually fairly simple. Just avoid unpleasant subjects and refer to your fellow alumnus as Classmate. At first, it carries an odd note of artificial formality. But then, everyone else does the same thing. Women talk to their sisters, and blacks to fellow brothers, and I even had a professor this semester who took to calling us all citizen to set things on a more equitable basis. Besides, if you're the type that just can't remember first names, it makes it all a helluva lot easier...
...anything odd about that (BEGINNING TO REMOVE HIS TIE). It seems to me that the fact a person would go into this business probably means (UNBUTTONING HIS SHIRT) that he has a certain desire to exhibit himself. [Laughter and applause.] But the thing that I find unusual about it is that you go into a business like a talk show and find yourself talking to people about things (THE SHIRT IS COMPLETELY UNBUTTONED) that you wouldn't talk about in real (BARING HIS CHEST). That's the irony it ... [Laughter and wild applause.] I'm sorry...
This new dynamic that Carter sees at work in Georgia is in an odd fashion the outgrowth of that old preoccupation with racial issues. Says Emory University Political Scientist James Clotfelter Jr.: "The walls did not come tumbling down when schools were integrated. The people expected things to be so utterly bad that there was no way that integration problems could meet the expectations of the whites." Indeed, that has been the story with each painfully wrought accommodation between the races, from desegregating public facilities to abolishing the dual school system. The apocalyptic prophecies of the racist Jeremiahs have gone...
...amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme. His versifications made the bespectacled and gamesomely civilized poet something of a celebrity. His accent ("clam chowder of the East Coast-New England with a little Savannah at odd moments") was sometimes heard on radio's "Information, Please!" and the Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee hours...
Many students will therefore treat themselves to Wanderjahre, living frugaily on handouts from home or picking up odd jobs. Or they may join communes, which are a practical way for unsettled idealists to live on next to nothing. Others, while still in college, will try to line up what are usually called "alternative" jobs, meaning jobs that suit the new alternative lifestyle. In some college placement offices there are folders containing information about how the kids can get into dome building, blacksmithing, pipefitting or free-school teaching. At Oberlin, there is even an "alternatives" office, staffed by ten volunteer students...