Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With great expectations, expectations that would daunt a lesser team, the Harvard women's soccer team is finally proving to itself, to the league and to the nation that it is not going to settle for second best or odd-man-out for another season...
...heritage," said Jack J. Mahoney, one of 50-odd participants in the march to the commission. "I think it's very fitting that the City of Cambridge remember [the Irish]. They had a lot to do with the politics and history of Cambridge...
...moment they kill their creations. Taking a literal spin on the idea of an "inner child," the Unseen Theatre production of "And Baby Makes Seven" offered a solid, but unremarkable, portrayal of colliding fantasies and realities. Unfortunately, because of a tendency toward pat set-ups reminiscent of an odd sit-com pilot and a vague sense of lagging toward the end, the audience was left thinking about the mental exercise of story-telling rather than caring about the actors' evocation of the topic...
Many proctors went to other schools for their undergraduate education and aren't aware of this, but it is also hard to match up proctors and proctor groups. An entryway is an odd mix-up of people. The perfect advisor for most of them could be not the best for some. The FDO reminds us that not all situations can be ideal. Indeed, they admit some are far from perfect...
...Oddly, this quality of spiritual longing, expressed with a great deal of hopefulness and uplift, gives Kinnell's poetry something of the affect of 19th-century religious verse, in which Heaven and angels are never far away. The difference is that Kinnell's paradises are earthbound, and sometimes found in odd places; in "Parkinson's Disease," for example, he describes a paralyzed old man, living in his daughter's care, as about "to pass from this paradise into the next." Here, being loved and cared for reveals paradise; elsewhere, it's found in sexual union. The book has three rather...