Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look like a jock, plays a heavily recruited high school hoop star who chooses fictional Western University in Los Angeles, a perennial basketball power. Any parallels to UCLA, it seems, are purely intentional. The coach, played by one W.D. Spradlin, even clutches a rolled-up program during games, a quirk college hoop fans will immediately recognize as the trademark of John Wooden, UCLA's fabled Wizard of Westwood...
...student is on board contract, to eat in the University dining halls. That is the reason why, you will note, we have chosen to draw a formal distinction between the "Bursars cards" available at Harvard, and the "Student Identification" cards routinely available elsewhere. It's not just another Harvard quirk, as you can now plainly see--you know, like a calling the Coop the Coupe instead of the Co-op, or Quincy Kwinnzeee--it's an important thing, grounded in important considerations of this and that." Quite frankly we can't disagree...
...long ago recognized an irrational quirk in my point of view regarding Chicano rock groups that play what can be loosely labelled barrio or Chicano rock. My desire to see these bands make the big time overwhelms my attempts to remain objective and discriminating. I may not particularly enjoy the repertoire of groups such as Mal and El Chicano, yet I cannot deny a certain disappointment at watching them score one or two big hits and then promptly fade from the rock music limelight. But the ethnic background of Santana's members is only one of their selling points...
ALCOHOLISM AND BRAIN. Is alcoholism caused by purely social or psychological factors, or does it have its origins in some quirk of body chemistry? Last week two Purdue University scientists published the results of an intriguing experiment that may help clarify the issue...
...victim of a little-noticed discrepancy in the Harvard-Radcliffe merger agreement by which past and present Harvard students are not entitled to the privileges of their Radcliffe counterparts--a legal quirk that the head of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees said yesterday should be changed...