Word: odd
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...About to be thrust into a daunting bear market, members of Harvard’s graduating class have doubtless pondered the ultimate meaning of their hard-earned diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible...
...colleagues have spun out for Marvel Comics is their confirmation of what any young reader may have thought about himself as his body changes and his mind reels: I'm a freak. To this Lee adds the fantasy: But your weirdness is a sign of preternatural abilities; you're odd because you're a hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block. It's the outsider's ultimate dream. Use what's different...
...first showed him the way. In the central panel of one of Bacon's works from the 1970s, Triptych--In Memory of George Dyer, a shadowy man stands near the landing of a darkened stairwell, turning a tiny key in a lock. That key is borrowed from an odd creature doing the same in several of Picasso's seaside pictures from the late 1920s, when he was flirting with Surrealism. Those elastic Picassos, with their biomorphic figures that are part human, part dirigible, part swollen breast or phallus, turned a key in Bacon. They showed...
...after they've had enough time to take action but before they've solidified their legacy. And although it seems like an arbitrary measure - if something happens on the 101st day, is it somehow less important? - Presidents can get a surprising amount done in their first three-and-some-odd months. (See behind-the-scenes pictures of Obama...
...there were some odd parts of Barry's plea. His promises to give us more on the 'new functionality' re: receiving our grades were left unfulfilled--FlyBy will stay on the lookout. Also, we're highly skeptical of his primary piece of advice...