Word: odd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Odd and Mysterious...
...fact remains that over 95 percent of all rapists and batterers are men--this is not feminist militancy, this is reality. Bowdren mocks the rally's participants for considering "the problem of violence against women lodged in the institution of patriarchy, and for some, just men in general"--how odd...
...seemed in many ways the odd woman out among her generation of U.S. poets, and not only because of her gender. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) suffered none of the public breakdowns, burnouts and crack-ups that afflicted such talented contemporaries as Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell and Theodore Roethke. "You are the soberest poet we've had here yet," a secretary at the University of Washington once told her; she cherished the comment and repeated it to others. Bishop's public image seemed serene -- photographs taken well into her middle years invariably show small features arranged impassively...
Most curious of all is that, to this day, neither Green, nor Rudenstine, nor anyone else has said why the Provost decided to return to active scholarship. Indeed, the outgoing Provost's odd silence on the issue marks a sharp--and, we must admit--somewhat suspicious contrast to the Jerry Green we know and like...
What is this discrimination founded on? Doesn't Dean Epps realize that all sorts of conflict seek recognition and resolution from the Harvard Mediation Service? This discrimination is strikingly odd, no? After all, the entire theory underlying the mediation enterprise holds that all sides are more or less equal. But as evinced by the fact that the HMS will not take just any conflict, this will to neutrality is not extended universally. We should reject this narrow definition of interest. It's time for the HMS to broaden its scope...