Word: odd
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Donoghue eventually did go to college, but not for two years, during which he travelled around North America doing odd jobs on the way. According to Donoghue, it was during his travels that he first became interested in plants...
...recent grape debate is only an extreme example of this persistent pattern. As the Wall Street Journal noted in its December 10 article on the Harvard grape controversy, "The recent ferment at Harvard is odd, if only because the grape boycott had pretty much died on the vine elsewhere." In fact, the grape boycotts (1967-70, 1973-78) succeeded, leading one to wonder why were we still at it only a week...
...Butler and Aziz, the first time the two sides have sat down to talk weapons since last month's standoff is progress in itself. The U.N. chief says we'll know in the next couple of days whether Iraq will consent to having its 60-odd palatial compounds inspected. Peace in the Gulf ? just in time for the holidays...
...polemics in Shedding Life, most surprising is Holub's harsh criticism of contemporary humanities. One might find it odd that Holub, an established literary figure, prefaces his book with a George Steiner quotation that laments "the pretentious triviality which now dominate so much of literary theory and humanistic studies." If voiced by an American, Holub's barb might be interpreted as another sortie in the war between C.P. Snow's "the two cultures"--the hard sciences sniping from one side of the trenches, the humanities and social sciences from the other. In reality, however, Holub has no desire to accuse...
...such a massive amount of information. Degas in New Orleans is nearly incomprehensible in the first few chapters; a bewildering array of characters with similar names but little in common except Louisiana are rapidly introduced. Slowly, as the book unfurls, far-flung strands converge, and the book's odd structure eventually makes sense...