Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That both these exhibitions reach uncommon heights of mediocrity should affect the success of the Festival only slightly. For this is not really an arts festival at all but a peculiar sort of New England circus to which people go to see other people looking at pictures. The only thing that darkens the happy atmosphere of this carnival is the realization that a city which saw some grand times as an American culture center produces an annual show of visual arts that gets worse every year...
Home Crusades. The anti-Jewish polemic was not uncommon to the militant and quite intolerant 12th century British church, which had already sent two crusades against infidels, and under Richard the Lionhearted was raising a third. Zealous Christians, certain that the Last Judgment was just around the corner, and eager to pay back the pagans, were just as ready to take revenge on the Jews of Britain as they were to recover Jerusalem from the Moslems...
...strings to land a job in 1947 with London's Sadler's Wells Theater Ballet as a dancer and sometime choreographer. Five years later, critics were calling him "the young hope of British choreography." Later, as a choreographer with the Royal Ballet, he carved a reputation for uncommon versatility and invention. But always he nurtured a burning itch to discover and develop a new "pattern of movement and expression which already is deeply ingrained into the matrix of our artistic experience and potential." He longed for his own ballet company, and when he got an invitation from Stuttgart...
...NIGHT WATCH. Five men plan an underground escape from a Paris prison-a commonplace theme developed with uncommon skill in this taut French thriller...
...Goldwater has 25% of the vote in Oregon, and maybe more. We need about 20,000 votes more to win. I wouldn't be surprised if we'd pick them up. Anybody who writes off Goldwater is nuts." As for Dick Nixon, his Oregon friends professed an uncommon amount of cheer over a telegram that was, if nothing else, cautiously worded. "I shall look forward to working with you in the final campaign," Nixon wired, "in whatever role our convention decides I can best serve the cause...