Word: quaintness
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...skit about big bad bullies may seem ludicrously quaint against the backdrop of teen shootings like the one last week in El Cajon, Calif. But the professional production, part of the local school district's efforts to combat bullying, seeks in a small way to change the weekly headlines. More and more schools around the country are implementing antibullying policies. New laws in Georgia, New Hampshire and Vermont require them, and Colorado, home to the Columbine school massacre, is debating a measure. Skeptics say such legislation is fruitless and serves merely as a platform for politicians to display their practiced...
...Neil Jordan and Liam Neeson, were actually Irish. To celebrate both the British and Irish would have sounded inelegant and was rife with political danger. The diplomatic skills of the British consul-general in L.A. saved the day. He suggested referring to the nominees of "the British Isles" (a quaint geographic nomenclature that includes Ireland by way of topography without mentioning the vexed issue of sovereignty...
...Americans, cricket may look like a quaint memento of the British empire's heyday, an exasperatingly slow, overly complex game of bat and ball played by gentlemen in white flannels who continue to maintain the time-honored tradition of interrupting the afternoon session for 20 minutes at 4 p.m., to allow the players to enjoy a nice cup of tea. And yet to the British and those they colonized, it remains an almost mystical canonization of their culture?s finest achievements...
...comes to realize that compared with the turmoil of the past 60 years--war, revolution, a famine that killed 30 million, the Cultural Revolution and the recent opening to the outside world--the disruption of the dam is relatively minor from the Chinese perspective. And he sees that the quaint old houses built on the cobbled streets leading up from the Yangtze--the structures Western tourists like to photograph--are in fact dirty, cramped and without running water or toilets. Many Chinese prefer to move to the industrial new towns built in all their tasteless utility. Writes Hessler: "In some...
...projected building--which unoriginally resembles a large glass and concrete book--would be situated in the midst of the old-fashioned, quaint structures that currently line the picturesque avenue. The building is supposedly designed to blend into the aesthetic of the community, an intent it accomplishes just as well as its stand-out predecessors Mather Hall, William James Hall, Canaday Hall, William James Hall and the Science Center. For years these embodiments of beauty and tradition have graced the Cambridge community with the flare of glass, concrete and primary colors. Clearly the University is committed to continuing this high standard...