Word: quaintness
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...hear the clanking of cups and people waiting for tables," says Susan Moriarty, a Denver-based travel writer. "It's all too frenzied. I don't want to get picked up in a bookstore. Bookshops," she adds, "used to be a private thing between you and a book." How quaint...
...SPRING OF 1992, I saw the film "Cinema Paradiso" for the very first time. It made working at a movie theater seem like a marvelous, quaint and romantic experience, with a big pot of gold at the end. The way I read it, "Cinema Paradiso" said that if you worked at a movie theater and really loved film, you would end up a rich and famous director with gracefully graying temples, a bevy of beauties in your bed and a tragically, nobly broken heart...
Penn thus becomes the latest school to turn itself inside out over an issue that dates back to Abelard and Heloise. Through the years so many professors have romanced and often married their students that it seems a quaint, even hypocritical exercise to suddenly try to stop them. "If this policy were applied retroactively," remarks Penn history professor Alan Kors, who married one of his students 20 years ago, "I think a third of the faculty would have resigned...
These questions will be even harder to resolve because faith in government--already shaken by scandal, gridlock and failed presidencies--is at an all-time low. And harder still because civil discourse has become a quaint affectation for a public too willing to tolerate the same screeching hyperbole in its politics that it relishes on its airwaves...
Appearances can be deceiving, for hunger and its particular dangers cannot always be seen from the outside. Rickets may seem like a quaint problem, or the answer to a trivia quiz, but school administrators still know firsthand what it is like to deal with a child who is not getting enough to eat. Linda Butcher, coordinator for health services in Oxnard elementary school district, a California agricultural community with about 14,000 students, says that before her schools applied for the School Breakfast Program, students would start feeling sick in the middle of the morning. Instead of playing during recess...