Word: quainted
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...spawned a fierce debate between a certain kind of conservative (usually called cultural conservative) on the one hand and civil libertarians on the other. The argument went like this. The conservative gave the intuitive case against pornography based on an overriding concern for, it now sounds almost too quaint to say, public morality. Pornography is an affront to decency; it coarsens society. As Susan Sontag, not a conservative, writing in defense of pornography says, it serves to "drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being...
Offstage, Nigel and David snipe at each other like two people at the angry end of a bad marriage. Then it's onstage again, this time at an embarrassingly quaint military social, or second-billed to a puppet show in Themeland Park-all for the perks of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll...
...just said. George McGovern's sincerity, clarity and professorial calm have piqued the interest of a new generation of college students who were children when the former presidential candidate led his party against the Viet Nam War in 1972. To the mainstream of voters, however, he appears quaint, quixotic and too liberal. Reubin Askew remains a blur, with low name recognition even among recent residents of his home state, Florida. Only Jesse Jackson, irrepressible and sometimes outrageous, seems to be gaining converts in his long-shot crusade. But while Jackson has shown that a black can be a potent...
...acquire those skills is in universities. Universities are gatekeepers and have a certain special duty in that regard I find that a lot of the choices that are made, particularly in faculty decisions and when one talks about mid-level and upper-level administrators has to do with this quaint thing called "fit," much more than it has to do with this thing called "objective qualifications." I have had, since I've been on this campus, a number of people comment to me about people not fitting; not that the people didn't have the qualifications, not that they didn...
...Bostonians get so excited over college hockey, the collegiate sport that never managed to produce the same nationwide mania as football and basketball? And they pack the Boston Garden for a little tournament--the same four teams play every year, even--and they scream themselves hoarse, Quaint old Beantown...