Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recruit minorities and to disspell perceptions that race relations at Harvard are strained. Last year, campus minority organizations banded together to protest the lack of diversity on a Junior Parents' Weekend panel. They issued a list of demands, including more minority tenured professors, on a flyer titled "The Peculiar Institution...
...tremendous longing for communication, and also this strong desire to communicate through the body." Hence her body-art and performance pieces through the '70s and '80s, in which bodies (her own or others') got fitted out with bandage-like wraps -- symbols of Horn's obsession with healing -- or with peculiar extensions like a unicorn horn, or fingers several feet long, or enveloping soft forms like The Feathered Prison...
Americans, especially high-mileage males, suffer a peculiar kind of dementia in the presence of gear; they are likely to buy any piece of overpriced sports equipment, so long as it has a digital readout or is made of something crucial to the success of the space station. Or both; Panasonic is advertising a tiny hand-held Global Positioning System (GPS) device, a little brother to the satellite navigation system developed for the military and now used in aircraft and yachts. This astonishing dingus will consult the stars (satellites, actually) and tell you, on land...
Other motives are often at work when the prospective defendant is a star. "You get a peculiar asymmetry on matters of reputation," says Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School. "The strong are subject to the depredations of the weak, but they cannot effectively retaliate in kind. That's one of the problems of being rich and famous." Another problem, Epstein says, is that "many celebrities start to think that ordinary rules don't apply to them. A likelihood of serious misconduct may rise...
...reading and discussions are designed as a preemptive strike against racial tensions in the College. This spring, minority student groups released a flyer labeling Harvard "the Peculiar Institution"--a reference to slavery--and demanding greater Faculty diversity and more opportunities for minority students to make their voices heard...