Word: uncommoner
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...student) to examine the topic, the students’ voice was not only heard but heeded. The committee’s work was truly a collaboration of all parties, and the result is a policy with which most seem to be pleased—a result all too uncommon in contentious situations like this...
Lopez has only an exiguous notion of what real gay life is like, but such misapprehensions are not uncommon among young people with same-sex attractions. Savin-Williams recalls counseling a kid who, after the third session, referred to his "partner." "And I said, 'Oh, you're gay.' And he said, 'No. I only fall in love with guys, but I'm not "gay." It doesn't have anything to do with me.' He saw being gay as leftist, radical." At Exodus' Youth Day, I met several young gays who spoke of the need to "walk out of" homosexuality because...
Before Robeson, while it was not uncommon for black actors to perform on Broadway, in America, the role of Othello had to be played by white actors in makeup. It was inconceivable that a black man could marry a white woman and kiss her onstage, even in a Shakespearean play. But as Robeson’s Othello toured the nation, playing to packed theatres in every city and amassing huge box office profits, audiences gradually became accustomed to the notion of the mixed-race pairing...
...class of 2006 right after all of our theses are finished. With all the opportunity that we’ve been exposed to, not yet having a calling as a Harvard senior is not only guilt-inducing, it’s laughable. But it’s not uncommon. Like a Monty Hall game show magnified a thousand times, every door available to us conceals a career promising adventure, wealth and happiness. But still, most of us remain too hesitant to make a choice...
...VAGABLOGGING.NET This is a website created by Rolf Potts, a renowned shoestring traveler whose 2002 book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, is a crucial reference for any budget wanderer. He started his companion blog the same year and provides almost daily updates from wherever he is (at press time, it was Paris...