Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courses weren't general enough. They confused 'general' with 'odd.' It looked as if they were things that the professor would be ashamed to give in his own department," says Harvey C. Mansfield '53, Kenan professor of government...
...While an odd concentration has bit the dust--Geology and Geography was absorbed decades ago--many more have sprung up to fill the gaps--Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP), Afro-American Studies, Computer Science and Women's Studies are all relatively new offerings...
...Lemmon-Matthau-Wilder trio are probably most famous for The Odd Couple...
When Michael Duffy was hired as a TIME correspondent in 1985, he couldn't believe his good fortune. "Are you sure you're not making a big mistake?" he asked the deputy chief of correspondents. An odd question to put to one's new boss, but then Duffy has never been a stickler for convention. Working first in TIME's Washington bureau as Pentagon correspondent, then as a political reporter covering both the Bush and Clinton presidencies, Duffy developed a reputation as a maverick with a knack for finding the unturned stone in even the most thoroughly trodden beat--most...
...some ways, Tarses is an odd person to be an insider in such network gamesmanship. Her father, producer Jay Tarses (Buffalo Bill, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd), has long been known for his combative relations with the networks suits. "I learned from him that network executives were hateful, horrible people who should be shot on sight," says Tarses with a smile. She grew up in the San Fernando Valley suburb of Woodland Hills, where her parents kept her safely aloof from the show-biz scene. But her dad liked to read his scripts aloud at the dinner table...