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Students and Faculty have hesitations about the unpredictable results of the plan's peculiar financial mechanisms for separating the needy and the highly qualified...
...peculiar how the soul protects the thin flame of consciousness against the violent gusts of emotions. How in moments of great triumph and tragedy alike, it shuts and bolts its windows, keeping the littler flame in stillest darkness with nothing but a distant echo of the agitation outside...
...renewed existential meaning, as he proclaims, "I'm kinky for bears." The bizarre tone of Elkin's humor, and complicated narrative twists, which often expect the reader to believe first-person accounts of thoroughly untrustworthy characters are as rewarding as they are trying. Somehow, it all makes a peculiar sense--there is no reason, everybody is insane...
Such harsh reactions are not peculiar to campuses. "The President may have fulfilled his pledge to bring us together," says Father Richard J. Shmaruk, a priest in Cambridge, Mass. "There are no lines of division on this any more. Young, old, rich, poor, liberal, conservative-they've all had it." Citizens in the Cambridge area collected 15,000 signatures in three days on an impeachment petition they are planning to present to their Congressman, House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill...
Zero for Conduct. The Europeans were almost equally upset by Washington's implicit argument that the U.S. somehow knows best. The U.S., said the Frankfurter Rundschau, has a peculiar definition of partnership, "namely, that one side makes the decisions and the other obeys." Added the Sunday Times of London: "It has never been a term of NATO membership that European governments should support the Zionist imperatives weighing upon American Presidents." The paper was referring to the common European belief that because of the Jewish vote, the U.S. has been blindly one-sided in its support of Israel...