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...Homecoming: she, like Ruth, was something of a slut. Thus the Oedipal shift of sexual power that takes place results in the overthrow of the two father figures-the old man and Teddy-with the two younger brothers taking possession of the slut-mother. That downfall is what gives peculiar pathos to the old man as he pleads for a kiss...
...educated draftees--men who enlisted after graduating from college because they did not care to go on to graduate school--leave with a certain sense of condescension and disdain for those who do not serve. The veterans share a grim pride in having been part of it all, a peculiar mixture of superiority and self-conscious maturity in dealing with the "dodgers." Their disdain, of course, is not unmixed with well-disguised envy...
Indian art seeks to evoke this fusion of identity with the timeless, regenerate Self. It tries to break down the distinction between the temporal, individual identity of the viewer and the identity of the subject to be contemplated. Accordingly, time-space has a peculiar irrelevance in most Indian masterpieces. In the 18th century Rajput miniature of Krsna and Radha at a riverbank (fig. 1) the artist describes movement as a concrete quality which defines the objects rather than as an activity which the objects engage in. He abstracts a motion into a frozen form; the movement of the swirling water...
Clerk to Cook. According to Subcommittee Chairman Wayne Hays of Ohio, the sessions revealed irregularities aplenty. There was, for example, the peculiar case of the 22 travel credit cards held by Powell-committee staffers. Mrs. Emma Swann, a committee receptionist whose name appeared on vouchers for 20 trips, testified that she had made only three of them - and that they were to Miami for "sightseeing and shopping." Russell Derrickson, staff director of Powell's panel, denied making any of the 26 trips charged to his name. Odell Clark, the committee's chief investigator, was unable to explain...
...borrowers in 44 communities. Though defaults have come to 3.4% of that total as compared with a mere 0.2% in commercial bank lending, the agency calls itself "pleasantly surprised" that the record is not worse. Even so, some critics complain that the SBA has taken some mighty peculiar risks. A service station folded because the owner wasn't around enough to keep track of the operation. A small manufacturer of plastics and draperies failed because he priced his products below cost. Even though he had undergone one bankruptcy before, Chicago Taxi Driver Lawrence Young persuaded the SBA to lend...