Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That has reinforced complacency concerning the particular and peculiar plight of Black America today," he added...
...night Especially if you aren't used to counting your champagne bottles by the square yard and pushing your way between velvet shoulders and clustered TV cameras just to see other people ogling Man of the Year Sean Connery. It could be considered decadent or glamor-mad, a bit peculiar--the audience's vast delight in hairy cleavages and falsetto love scenes--or, in years when the show is lousy, altogether pointless...
...Greens don't seem to realize, for example, that civil disobedience is something essentially peculiar to the West. Though it is a good sign that West Germans can take many political liberties for granted, they ought not forget these rights are far from being universally respected. The Greens should not admire their right to oppose the state so much that they neglect to exercise it; nevertheless, it would not be altogether inappropriate for the party to develop greater sensitivity in making assumptions about the application of that right, both in West Germany and in the East...
...they stand. Now, it's very easy to say, "I want the best development officer in any Ivy League institution anywhere in the country." The fact is that there are few Black development officers in the Ivy League institutions of the country, and it's not because of the peculiar skills required. It's because historically, alumni officers and development officers have a peculiar recruitment process--it's done through who you know, and who has always been doing this work. By going to the equal opportunity analysis at this particular point in history, one locks in the burdens that...
...painting in the context of other Lottos, and to find how the peculiar magic of its imagery is distilled from the elegant claustrophobia of his more "normal" work, is not just a pleasure but an education...