Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early evening, it is nor uncommon to find an M.I.T. fraternity or a half dozen Mass General nurses seated near the back of the theatre. Even a college couple "out slumming" can be seen occasionally. Then there are squeals and titters, most often from the M.I.T. section...
Public outcry is as uncommon in Russia as borsch without sour cream, but something very much like it has been triggered by last month's sentencing of four young intellectuals to terms in labor camps. Soviet writers, scientists and university teachers, who once quaked in fear of the Kremlin's displeasure, have drawn up petitions, loudly condemned the sentences and fired off a spate of letters not only to Russia's newspapers but to the Soviet Supreme Court, the Politburo and several other government agencies. In an unusually bold campaign, they have accused the Russian press...
...qualifications. Every night there are 80 or 90 rounds-of 'H & I' (harassment and interdiction) artillery fired into a free strike zone outside of town. Our house is between the artillery mounting on a hill three miles from here and the free strike zones. It's not at all uncommon to hear shells whizzing high over the neighborhood. But if it weren't for the sake of a newsletter, I'd be completely oblivious to the noise (as, indeed, is everyone). H & I is fired mostly for psychological purposes. Free strike zones are areas the army is allowed to pummel...
...lethargic revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, the play drones on like a college seminar labeled "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism, 1412-1431." In the title role, Diana Sands is earth-bound but never God-intoxicated, more of a common scold than an uncommon saint...
Bright Gift. No TV Christmas season is complete, of course, without violence. That came on both weekends as the pro football teams played with that uncommon ferocity that breaks out when they sniff the big money of playoff and bowl games. NBC opted for violence remembered in "Alamein...