Word: odd
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Since almost three-quarters of the potential voters are black and a majority of them back the A.N.C., this might look easy. It is not. Last week a boycott of the election by an odd-fellows alliance of blacks and conservative whites looked certain when talks with the A.N.C. and the government over ethnic autonomy sputtered to a near halt as the deadline to get on the ballot passed. Some die-hard whites have voted against participation. Additional pressure came from Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who told President F.W. de Klerk that if the interim constitution did not give more...
Most of the paintings in the show's 20-odd pieces depict buildings, although there are a few figural works and interior scenes. The pieces are all relatively small; while some of the bigger ones are more worked, the smallest are quick sketches in paint. Howe's plans for his next pieces include bigger canvases and more portraits...
...conservative, what is the cult of the 1970s? Is a movement that attempts to turn back the clock 20-odd years "progressive"? What does it say about progressivism's future that its most successful aspect is a revival of the past...
...course, it is our generation--which didn't have sex, booze, pot or voting rights in the 1970s--that harbors the worst nostalgics of all. How odd to be sentimental about a past we didn't experience but that millions of eyewitnesses agreed wasn't worth experiencing. That says something about how low an opinion we hold of the present...
Since the first instance of debate on the topic of Radcliffe's future, I've found myself keeping odd company. It began the night of December 6, at the ARCO forum panel discussion "What is Radcliffe's Relation to Harvard?", when the former editors of Perspective, Harvard Radcliffe's Liberal Monthly and The Salient(Harvard's Almost Liberal Almost Biweekly) decided to break ideological stride with the co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (Radcliffe's Liberal Always). The continued existence of Radcliffe, they argued, is patronizing to women, similar to the sexism exhibited by the final clubs...