Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, swarming to Capri in the thousands, tourists from Stockholm and Skowhegan discovered that Douglas' isle of dreams is rapidly being converted into a larger Coney Island with peculiar Mediterranean overtones. Last year Capri's 9,000 inhabitants watched 1,250,690 visitors scurry about the island; this year even more tourists are expected. Recoiling at the mere memory of Capri's milling mob of middle-class humanity, one starchy American matron indignantly proclaimed: "And for this I gave up a papal audience...
...round numbers, Almond's new coalition of moderates netted only two additional senate seats, lost about three house seats. But by a peculiar gentlemen's understanding of gentlemanly Virginia politics, the segregation-moderation issue was sharply tested in three critical senate seats that the opposition tried to take by every trick in white supremacy's bag. Almond-backing moderates won them so handily that the diehards could hardly believe the vote ("Good God! Are you sure...
...These produced, or at least informed, respectively, the play and the dream-scene within it, which together justify the subtitle of Man and Superman, "a Comedy and a Philosophy." (This is not to say, of course, that the main play lacks philosophy or the interlude lacks comedy. Shaw's peculiar gift is his ability to fuse...
...social swim. In the office from 8:30 to 7:30 p.m. six days a week, he often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt (he says he picked up the habit while trying to dodge low-slung overheads aboard ship). Gates has not had a full-fledged vacation in six years, manages only a few hours at a time for golfing (mid-80s), boating with his wife Anne and their three daughters, romping...
Holding forth from behind a table in Barnes & Noble, Feiffer autographed his books (Sick, Sick, Sick, and his latest, Passionella), speedily reproduced many of his characters on request, and generally entertained the local menagerie with his peculiar blend of a genuine inquisitive interest in humanity and a quiescent abandon with which he was endowed as a native son of the Bronx...