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...book's Southern veneer, however, does not make it parochial. All the peculiar colloquial mannerisms reinforce an imaginative sense of Americana that makes no one a stranger to the world of this novel. Taylor's portrait of Memphis conveys the duality of life, desultory and crazy at alternate moments...
...spring of 10th grade working at a Taco Bell outlet in town. My most lasting memory of my tenure there is of the time the manager, Jack, asked me to get some beef out of the freezer. When I returned to tell him that the meat was a most peculiar shade of green, he told me not to worry: "No one will notice once we cook it, Steve...
...second consequence emerges from a peculiar property of root causes: on close examination they turn out to be, as a matter of practice or policy, insoluble. There is no conceivable American policy that will solve the problem of poverty in Central America. (Not that poverty can never be ameliorated. It can. But not by a simple act of political will. In the West, for example, the conquest of mass poverty was the product of two centuries of painful industrialization.) The term root tends to be assigned to the most intractable of conditions. Except in the mind of the revolutionary, that...
...school's precipitous rise, and the influx of volatile new ideas on the meaning of architecture, bred a peculiar mixture of worldwide fame--and campus controversy. As the University entered a period of rapid institutional growth, Harvard administrators hesitated to abandon the Georgian Revivalist style of the old Yard and the river houses...
...drug addict holds a peculiar place in society, not unlike the AIDS victim; the impulse to shun collides with the impulse to embrace. If the addict happens to be your colleague or your daughter, the confusion doubles; there are no impoverished minorities to pity or blame. You become a mote in history. For thousands of years, people have smoked, snorted, injected their way between paradise and self-murder, while the outer world has watched, scolded, legislated, not legislated, with barely the slightest comprehension...