Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
...Rosenthal's illustrious predecessors as editor of a New York newspaper was Horace Greeley of the Tribune, which no longer exists. It was an affectation of Greeley's to pluralize as the English do when a singular word has a plural context, as in "the government are concerned." Once Greeley impatiently cabled one of his correspondents, "Are there any news?" Back came the answer: "Sorry, not a single new." That unsung correspondent may only have intended a funny reply, but he appears to have had a firm grip on what needs to be reported...
...meet her, Isak Dinesen, storyteller. But before that she was Baroness Karen Blixen, who in 1913-14 exchanged family money for a title, a farm in Kenya and the 17 years of experience that, distilled to its essence, would form the basis for one of this century's truly singular literary compositions, Out of Africa...
...fact, it's hard to imagine why anyone would seek further academic diversion. Breathing the rarefied air of scholarly excellence as we do, discontent appears ungrateful, even unseemly. And yet, Veritas as a singular, ivy-shrouded aim can be stifling. While Harvard may boast the finest display of academic resources, it overlooks the possibility that undergraduates might want more than visiting privileges to the world's greatest museum of collected Knowledge, that under the traditional theme of "diversity within excellence," students might want to feel that they belong...
...military operation, the raid was a singular success. As a diplomatic and political maneuver, it was a dubious proposition, since it came at a time when the U.S., in cooperation with Jordan and Egypt, had been attempting to keep King Hussein's fragile peace initiative alive. The raid took the Tunisian government of President Habib Bourguiba, 82, a longtime friend of the U.S., by surprise. When Tunisians first heard explosions from Hammam al-Shatt, many thought that a raid was being carried out by Libya, with which Tunisia had broken diplomatic relations a few days earlier. But on the beach...