Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same pattern," then ostracize them until they were "out" for a team, a glee club, a publication, even brand them as "queer" until they thought like and acted like everybody else, and finally teach them in remaining leisure to dine elegantly, dance gracefully, and bridge skillfully...
Emerson, scarcely in the upper half of his class at graduation, a queer follow with few warm friends, and a natural rebel against his college assignments, could hardly have been expected by contemporaries to achieve great prominence. Yet, of the Harvard class of 1921, his name is today the most illustrious...
...class is, at best, very meager. Harvard is the university par excellence of the individual. The much mooted question of Harvard indifference very largely explains itself through the emphasis placed upon the sacred right of a man to be himself, even to the point of being thought queer for it. But individualism like other virtues, becomes a vice when carried...
...draperies falling in straight close folds; hard, grim faces; heads sunk low or crammed awkwardly into chests; abnormally long noses; cramped postures; elongated forms. Many of these characteristics may be traced to the influence of Metzner. Mestrovic's Madonnas are a distinct type, almost a formula. They are a queer, rigid combination of an almost Eastern tradition with Western realism. Somber, stiff figures, a little wistful, a little pathetic, done with long, simple, vigorous lines. Mestrovic's chief claim to consideration is not intellectual. He is ever emotional. He is conspicuously sculptural. His silhouettes are sharp, simplified. His cuts...
This picture of R. L. S. from a fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...