Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renegades had planned to invent: a malcontent and misfit with a known fondness for Castro and guns. Slowly, dimly, Oswald begins to realize that he is being watched, people have designs on his destiny. Someone who knows what is cooking spells it out for him: "You're a quirk of history. You're a coincidence. They devise a plan, you fit it perfectly." The lecturer concludes, "There's a pattern in things...
...reasons that both Olympics and elections have achieved such enormous cultural success is that they have been synchronized with a galactic quirk which dictates that every four years there must be an extra day in the calendar. These extra-long years, called leap years, are perfect for cramming in one whole extra day of commercials onto the bandwagon of monster events. Furthermore, by staging the Olympics in the same year as Presidential elections, each feeds on the hysteria generated by the other until the American public is convinced that something important is actually happening...
...Quirk said that Dartmouth is only one or two points away from the average manwoman ratio in the Ivy League, which is apoproximately 60-40. "I think what we're fighting is a certain societal tilt toward the traditional roles," Quirk said...
Further, he added, "as we increase the percentage of women on our faculty, that'll be another signal," Quirk said. Dartmouth's faculty is currently 25 percent female...
Colleges have to take the issue "head on and realize that change is inevitable," Quirk said. "I think that we have to overcome the perception that [the Ivy League schools] are male institutions with female guests," said Quirk...