Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curriculum of the College has been constantly, if incrementally changing during the past 25 years-from one with a core of strictly-defined General Education surrounded by watertight departments to a pattern where General Education means departmental courses with a wider perspective and where interdisciplinary majors are not uncommon. The periodic discussions over minor reforms-loosening Independent Study requirements for example-have led some Faculty members to begin their own private reassessment of what a college education should...
...Senate objections, it is not uncommon for attorneys on the federal payroll to sue state and local governments. The Justice Department has initiated scores of such suits in civil rights matters. The OEO statute does not specifically mention this power, but poverty lawyers have assumed it-and could hardly succeed without it. "The problems of the poor," explains John Ferren, a teacher at Harvard Law School, "are mainly with Government agencies." The American Bar Association has also attacked the Murphy amendment as "oppressive interference with the freedom of the lawyer and the citizen...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course-and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders" -you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own: seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the "Xianmyth...
...housewife just a year to move from the kitchen to control of a successful leather-goods company. Now she's planning a recording session and thinking about her first movie-and who knows? Of course, Maria Scicolone Mussolini, 31-year-old mother of two, has a couple of uncommon advantages. Her husband is Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, Benito's son, and the familiar surname may have helped to make her shoes and handbags all the rage in Rome. In the same circular way, it may help sell records. The movie? Well, Maria is also Sophia Loren...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only plaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase, or reading about the "Xianmyth...