Word: peculiare
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...preacher's exhortation warned against the peculiar susceptibility of Harvard's young men to the influences of "heathen classes" and reminded them of the benefits of sobriety...
...then, within a few short decades, these titans proved wholly ephemeral. Their achievement was wiped out by a couple of dozen scrags with names like Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Malevich, Beckmann, Rauschenberg, mouthing their bizarre and (at first) peculiar and unpopular visual dialects. Over their bones rose a new edifice of taste enforcement, even more coercive than the old--the transnational bureaucracy of late modernism, staffed by as pompous a set of dullards as ever infested the shorter corridors of cultural power in 1900, all bombing on about their radical credentials. "The accursed power based on privilege," as Hilaire Belloc wrote...
Besides, contrary to what Green thinks, celebrations do have their place in the game. End zone rituals distinctive to a specific team, like Atlanta's "Dirty Bird" dance of two seasons ago, help to build team character and camaraderie. They represent an admittedly peculiar--but still compelling--form of male bonding. I'm sure an anthro major could back me up here...
...then there is that most peculiar door at Monticello, the revolving serving door outside the dining room. One side has shelves. The other is flat. Food would be brought up from the basement kitchen and placed on the shelves on the outer side of the door. It would then be swung around. What did Jefferson and his guests see? Dinner, minus the slaves who prepared...
...assert constitutional rights of free expression or privacy against schools. Usually the judges have found for the grownups. The Supreme Court has said it is O.K. for principals to censor student newspapers and for schools to test athletes for drugs without specific reasons for suspicion. And outside this peculiar case, the issue of whether children can assert legal claims against their parents or bring claims that their parents oppose is fairly clear cut: they can't. Many people remember the famous case of "Gregory K.," a 12-year-old who sued to "divorce" his parents in 1992 so that...