Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack (Working Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity...
...part the pupils like best is the confessional, when each participant recounts the details of his moving violation, whereupon his 40-odd classmates judge whether it was a mortal or just a venial infraction. "Thanks, David, for sharing that with us. I'm sure few of us were aware that you can actually purchase the STOP sign you've knocked over." So much emphasis is put on self- expression and broad-mindedness that at one point an instructor found himself equating drug taking with drinking, and upholding both. "You can do alcohol. You can do drugs," he admonished. "Just...
CYMBELINE. A mildly punkish off-Broadway version of Shakespeare's odd tragedy stars Oscar nominee Joan Cusack (Working Girl) as a wife wrongly accused of infidelity...
...time the 'cut direct' was delivered by looking right at a person and not acknowledging his acquaintance or even his existence. This is no longer done. It has been replaced by the lawsuit." The subject of drinking inspires a classic paradox: "Never refuse wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic...
...showed students' ability to govern themselves--was that which unfolded at year's end, eventually before headlines nationwide. When the Undergraduate Council voted on April 24 to ask for the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps to Harvard (ROTC), it believed it was performing a service to the 90-odd undergraduate ROTC participants forced to commute to MIT for the program...