Word: peculiare
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...course of the past decade, the city has lived through three different epochs. First, that of perestroika and glasnost. At that time, in the second half of the 1980s, Moscow was transformed into a huge debating club, into a unique, peculiar Hyde Park. For the first time, there was freedom of speech. One could finally talk, express opinions. And one could write the truth. Dozens of newspapers and periodicals appeared; the print runs of even exclusively literary monthlies were in the millions. People bought these things, read them, collected them. Today in the cramped, cluttered apartments of intellectuals, against walls...
...fruitful collaboration with the regime is especially peculiar because Ehrenburg was an early and vocal anti-Bolshevik. Born to a middle-class Jewish family in Kiev in 1891, he joined the Party in his teens but later quit in disgust at its intolerance and inability to understand art. Instead he lived as a Bohemian in Paris, making friends with Diego Rivera and Picasso. Even the Revolution didn't win him over to Communism; he returned to Russia in 1918, only to leave again three years later and write his first novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Julio Jurenito and His Disciples...
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...great deal of social engineering went into creating school segregation in the first place, points out William Taylor, a Washington lawyer who has worked on civil rights cases for 40 years. Taylor laments what he sees as the courts' "peculiar notion that segregation is the natural condition and desegregation goes against the natural order of things. The court's own finding in Brown was that segregation had been imposed by law and practice for many years. Missouri is a good example. You have racially restrictive covenants, racially restrictive ordinances. The notion that somehow segregation came about all because of people...
...evening's centerpiece was Carl Maria von Weber's Bassoon Concerto in F Major, a piece which even the concert program admitted "lacks something in originality." At best, the concerto is lively and clever, taking advantage of the bassoon's peculiar, step-like dexterity; the third movement's themes are almost jolly. But at other times it's hard to tell whether the composer intended what sound like humorous effects; the second movement's creeping themes were reminiscent of the Pink Panther's sly theme song. Similarly, the soloist's first entries in the first movement are preceded by total...