Word: peculiarities
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...Snatchers” as a metaphor for Communism? The beginning of the AIDS crisis and the rise of new reproductive technologies set off waves of nutty horror films that took our collective fears and misplaced anxieties and made them mythic —and in so doing exposed a peculiar kind of American cultural psychosis. Obsessed with life, obsessed with death, and so horribly afraid of encroachments upon either realm, we would lash out or ostracize those that could infect us with cultural change. For now, though, we’ll have to deal with...
Harvard’s struggles on kick and punt returns have gone from pesky to peculiar. The Crimson has four special teams’ fumbles in the past three games—two on punts and two on kickoffs. “Four times in the past three games we’ve had that same thing,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Prior to that, we haven’t had it four times in our entire tenure, 12 years. So ‘go figure’ is the best...
...unfortunate institution, guarded by a team of generally incompetent graduate students who presume to have the authority and the expertise to instruct and grade. These people, barely older than we are, control our lives for several hours each week. Yes, my friends, I speak of that peculiar and misguided aspect of a Harvard education so misrepresented in the brochures and misapplied in practice—the section and its accompanying TF.The section, at least as it was described to me when I applied to college, was some sort of glorious ivory tower summit between a small group of students...
...time Jim Nantz or Tim Brando or Greg Gumbel or John Saunders delivers his first statement to a network television audience of millions, we are greeted with the above statement’s peculiar obverse...
...should be appreciated as a place to laugh at and love for its idiosyncrasies. Harvard is like a slightly amnesiac grandmother who still thinks she’s living in 1939, but has lots of fun and interesting stories to tell you when she visits—a little peculiar and distinct from the rest of the world, but much wisdom and experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course by one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled...