Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much energy and direction into them as I originally did." The show will need 16 months of sold-out houses to break even, and its backers are audibly apprehensive. "Robbins has an economic interest too," says co-producer Bernard Jacobs, president of the Shubert Organization, "but artists are very peculiar. Finally, we are all in his hands." They are also in the hands of the '80s Broadway babies, raised on body mikes, synthesizers and musicals with no dance numbers. Will they care about a showman who hasn't staged a new show in 25 years...
...because it was the intrinsically more important issue, but because concern for the privacy of this Mather senior led me and many others in the House to avoid direct reference to the case in public forums. This silence should not be construed in any way as acquiescence to the peculiar deception which has been perpetrated on the Harvard community. And I can no longer maintain that silence...
Brian R. Hecht's article "Council Reelects Lee Unanimously" (Feb. 13) seems to be entirely appropriate in an age as crass as ours. I find it peculiar that the undergraduate body of such a prestigious university has supported an individual like Mr. Lee, an individual who carves his name in school desks and brags about it. The unbridled bravado with which Mr. Lee demonstrates his disrespect for private property is shocking. Unfortunately, it is surpassed by his easy use of four-letter words while being interviewed for Mr. Hecht's article...
...Congressmen so chicken? The most persuasive answers do not fit any of the orderly models found in political-science textbooks. Instead they are rooted in the peculiar folkways of the small town of 435 residents known as the House of Representatives...
...coaching at Harvard, in fact, has its own peculiar difficulties. Coaches occasionally have to rearrange practice schedules to accommodate athletes with classes or tests. Or, more often, they have to prepare for games without 100 percent attendance at practice...