Word: odd
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...branches around the Boston area. Throughout the school year and summer, students, alumni and faculty of Harvard and MIT, as well as the general public, crowd the stores in search of not only obscure textbooks, but also suits, furniture, records, t-shirts, posters, candy, and a host of other odd goods. This remarkable rise has been attributed to sustained good business acumen and management, and high visibility in the Square. But in recent years, these very factors have sparked a growing debate over whether the cooperative has shed some of its original ideals...
Throw in the fact that 20-odd schools are presently on NCAA probation and that more than 30 are being investigated for alleged improprieties. Throw in that ABC and CBS television are paying the schools $263 million for the right to broadcast selected football games over the next three years. Throw in that the football and basketball programs at several major universities are more separate fiefdoms than subservient parts of entire schools. And the answer to the basic question posed recently by The New York Times--have big-time schools lost control of their sports?--seems an emphatic...
...many Harvard students, Cambridge consists of a triangle formed by their dorm room, Store 24 and the Science Center. But Cambridge is a densely populated city (despite what your roommate from New York tells you), and the 90,000 odd people who live here are as varied as the shoe styles available in the Square. On this page are a handful of the friendly faces you may bump into if you wander off campus, perhaps to Central Square, or Porter Square--on a sunny September afternoon...
Perhaps it is the odd combination of Eastern European, intellectual and Midwestern values that accounts for Nagy's vast popularity at Harvard. In contrast to the elitism and even eccentricism which seems to afflict so many scholars. Nagy is both self-assured and self-effacing. He speaks with great knowledge and conviction about his work, but always with an undertone of modesty...
...various possible meanings of that story are the essence of an odd but ingratiating "documentary" novel called The Frog Who Dared to Croak (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $11.95). The author, as odd and ingratiating as his book, is Richard Sennett, 39, better known as an omnivorously brilliant professor of sociology at New York University. Sennett's hero, Tiber Grau, finds the folktale version of the frog story "pessimistic" and "not entirely clear." Grau is at this point a propaganda official in the short-lived Hungarian revolutionary regime of 1919, so he has the authority to rewrite the nation...