Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NIGHT WATCH. Five men seek an underground escape route from a Paris prison-a commonplace theme developed with uncommon skill in this taut French thriller...
...promising experiment in trying to lower the pressure is currently under way at Harvard, where it is quite possible to both publish and perish. Of 180 assistant professors and instructors in the faculty of arts and sciences only about 20% will get tenure. Hoping to breed more of those uncommon Siamese twins who join eminent scholarship with inspiring teaching, Harvard's history, government and economic departments are offering fellowships that balance teaching duties with research opportunities...
...MacArthur himself enjoyed his new job immensely. Efficient, indefatigable, imperious in everything he did, he struck outsiders as a benign but egocentric despot. MacArthur hardly bothered to listen to what others had to say, for he liked to talk himself. But when he spoke, he exhibited an uncommon grasp of a wide variety of non-military subjects, from economics to politics. Even the most skeptical of his visitors went away murmuring incredulously about "that amazing...
...Italy, where family feuds are common, an uncommon corporate vendetta has raged for a decade between E.N.I., the state oil monopoly, and Gulf Oil's Gulf Italia subsidiary. The grudge began after E.N.I, prospected unsuccessfully for oil around Ragusa in Sicily -and Gulf Italia, moving into the same area, brought in 50 wells. This victory by private enterprise so infuriated the late Enrico Mattei, E.N.I.'s leftist president, that he set out to drive Gulf Italia from Sicily. The Italian left, attacking foreign investors in general, jabbed especially at Gulf Italia's vice president and operating head...
...says, "may becoming out of the intellectual colonies like Oak Ridge or Los Alamos, where one man in six has a Ph.D., and out of the faculty communities of the great universities, where all the men and many of the women have advanced degrees." In the common - or uncommon-schools of such centers, says Platt, "whole classes of 130s and 140s may be seen, from kindergarten through high school." Among the results: a 13-year-old studying atomic physics seriously, an eleven-year-old taking college courses, an eight-year-old doing graduate work in mathematics...