Word: singularability
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...caught for the Cardinals. Baseball players, brainwise, used to be presumed capable of little more skill in the arts of communication than a repertory of meta-laryngeal grunts. But Rizzuto and Garagiola are both articulate, witty, catlike on top of the play by play, and full of first-person-singular remarks about how it is done. Example...
...life among such ethnic fringe groups as Brooklyn's Hasidic Jews, a band of Rumanian gypsies at Coney Island, a voodoo cult in Harlem, Japanese Buddhists on Riverside Drive, New Year revelers in Chinatown. Paradoxically, while poking through the city's sociological byways, Gaisseau misses the singular flavor of New York almost entirely. Like many other well-meaning tourists, he makes a superficial tour of the melting pot but overlooks the fire that keeps it going-the fast, fierce, savvy modernity of a great metropolis...
...Singular Doctrines. Though he had a reputation in later life for austere reserve, these early diaries show that the young Charles Francis was sensitive, touchy, and much more frolicsome than the rest of the Adams clan. Covering his life from age twelve to 22 and dealing mostly with his Harvard years, the entries are often solemn commentary on his vast reading, but there are also vivid accounts of drinking bouts, billiard games, and pretty girls who powerfully affected him: "Women have acted upon me by a voluptuous manner, to which I am unfortunately peculiarly susceptible." In a hurry...
This was a flouting, he felt, of natural law: "I believe God intended the union of the sexes as soon as they became of age to know the passion. This may be a singular doctrine and I may hereafter find it false, but I do now firmly believe." Charles Francis was always drawing a moral, even from a word-slinging match between a friend and an Irishman: "A young man is sure to disgrace himself by entering into quarrels with his inferiors, particularly when he is in the wrong...
Those who prefer to be wrenched to their senses will do well to dabble in "Ordinary Differential Equations," Math 218, which courts their curiosity with "real critical points" as well as some "complex singular points." Meanwhile nautically-minded folks plunge into "the influence of naval command of the seas" in Naval Sciences 12, and H. Stuart Hughes holds forth on the history of France since...