Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fein: The peculiar tragedy is that the Jewish community has a history of many creative relationships with blacks. We have shared a great deal. While your grandfather was being whipped in Mississippi, my grandfather was being killed in a pogrom. I may be dead wrong on this, but I sense that blacks say to themselves: "Look, the Jews have gotten it in the neck, too; yet they've been extraordinarily successful in this country. How do I explain their success and black nonsuccess?" They're certainly not going to conclude that Jews are better than black people...
With this axiom firmly in mind we can begin to understand the peculiar vitality and uniqueness of rock and roll. Of all the forms of music, rock is the least demanding of a particular environment and atmosphere. Thus, I can see that "Revolution 9," which is hardly rock 'n' roll, might turn out, some dark and wintry night, to be right (it hasn't happened yet for me) but I know that "Ob-la-di Ob-la-da," which is pure rock, is right nearly all the time. This instant impact that rock 'n' roll has is due in part...
...departmental malice. This is not the case. As I told your reporter, the department treated me as fairly as it could, and even attempted to get me a telephone and to work out a full-time teaching appointment for me with other departments. Given its priorities, the extremely peculiar budgetary constraints placed on it, and the financial situation of GSAS, it simply could not have come close to matching other offers I received. George P. Lakoff Lecturer in Linguistics
Chinese Torture. Grey, a rugged but wiry six-footer, has become tense and pale under this peculiar form of Chinese torture. At the second of two 20 minute visits that British diplomats have been allowed to pay him in 17 months, he complained of chest pains, reported that a Communist doctor conceded that he may have bronchitis-but would not do much about it. Guards deliver the People's Daily even though Grey cannot read Chinese. He grows weary of the Peking Review, an English-language Maoist propaganda magazine. He has a library in his upstairs quarters...
...credit-reporting agency in Mississippi filed an investigation by a field agent that quoted townfolk as saying that a female insurance adjuster was "scatterbrained," "peculiar," "neurotic or psychotic." Only after a drawn-out struggle and considerable loss of work was the adjuster able to persuade the agency to delete the words "neurotic and psychotic" from her file...