Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many theologians would also reject Mary Daly's dismissal of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ. He was incarnated as a man and chose male apostles, they would argue, because that was the need of his time: a female Messiah (and even female apostles) would have been outlandish. But there is no reason that Jesus and his Apostles could not represent feminine aspirations in their own humanity...
...last organized group of undergraduates which participated in the Harvard strike of 1969 will have left the University. And so ephemeral are the politics of Harvard's undergraduate student body--and so great the self-willed forgetfulness of the larger institution--that the metaphor of the last veteran, outlandish as it seems, is not totally inapt. When we leave, the bonds and rifts which the strike set up between us will vanish, and the last few remnants of a collective mind which at odd moments during that battle seemed fused into one inchoate but unanimous rage will be atomized...
...situation comedy has long been the most outlandish and outmoded of the television genres. No man is Gilligan's Island. Whatever network programming vice presidents think, there is a difference between a fantasy classic like Peter Pan and a Screen Gems gimmick show like The Flying...
...Roman Catholic, as a supporter of the free expression of ideas, and as a believer in the virginity of Mary, I offer Ti-Grace Atkinson my apologies for the outlandish behavior of Patricia Buckley Bozell [March 22]. Never before has the Virgin Mary required the use of arms-or hands-to defend her. Mrs. Bozell was rather presumptuous to think that Mary now needed her intercession...
...American power as uniquely dangerous-not when we have before us the spectacle of Soviet power, and rising Chinese power, and falling British power. How can one overlook the murderous greed we have seen the Kremlin display? What is one to make of the outlandish iconography Mao's Peking unashamedly tries to impose on China, and maybe all Asia...