Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard officials say these practices, which include door to door solicitation in dormitories, repeated odd hour telephone calls to potential recruits, and deceptive descriptions of Church structure and activities, amount to harrassment of students...
...odd fact that Harvard does not teach its history concentrators social theory. The school's educational philosophy, as embodied in the Core Curriculum, is meant to teach modes of inquiry as opposed to a set body of knowledge. But in the History department, one aspect of historical inquiry--its theoretical basis--is left a mystery...
...Svenska Film Institute's latest American release traces the odd evolution of an avant-garde production of Mozart's famous opera Don Giovanni. It centers around the whims of Walter (Etienne Glaser), the opera's director, who wants his actors to get in touch with the erotic and ends up offending all with his outrageous demands. The Mozart Brothers asks: "How can Walter reconcile his ideas with those of his cast and crew...
Nonetheless, it seems odd--and more than a little self-serving--for the director of Expository Writing to criticize undergraduate writing in the same report that absolves him of any responsibility in the matter. One would hope that Marius would turn a critical eye on his own program, in which the quality of instruction varies enormously among classes. Many of Marius' criticisms have to do with difficulties of style of a kind which the semester-long course he oversees should be able to address. So we conclude that your points are valid, Mr. Marius. We only hope you do something...
Thirteen times during their eight-week stay, a specially outfitted DC-8 took off from the Presidente Ibanez Airport, twelve miles northeast of Punta Arenas. Often the 40-odd scientists and support crew listed for a given flight had to leave the hotel soon after midnight to prepare the plane and its research instruments. Once airborne, the DC-8 would bank south toward Antarctica, 1,000 miles away, fighting vicious winds before settling into a twelve-hour round-trip flight at altitudes of up to 40,000 ft. Along the way, the instruments continuously collected data on atmospheric gases, airborne...