Word: uncommonness
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...Harvard experience has bred an uncommon sense of the importance of sports in our lives. Athletics are not "big-time" in the sense they are at USC or Notre Dame or Alabama, yet Harvard still produces teams of national caliber (hockey, Harvard and Radcliffe crew, swimming, squash, baseball, sailing and soccer, to name a few) and has walked away with its share of national championships. You can approach them from either...
...general, few people not running for positions on these committees seem to take a passionate interest in how the elections come out, and it's not uncommon for an election to be uncontested. Maybe this is changing: One candidate for the Freshman Council last year went so far as to buy an advertisement in The Crimson to boost his campaign. He was accordingly disqualified, but not even this breech of political ethics gave much sign of denting his constituents' indifference. Presumably they had their eyes on bigger game...
...Parkinson's disease dying out? The "shaking palsy" that Dr. James Parkinson, a London physician, distinguished in 1817 was relatively uncommon until the 1930s, when this ancient nervous disorder inexplicably erupted to nearly epidemic proportions. Now new cases of Parkinsonism are appearing less frequently, prompting a debate as to whether this scourge of the mid-20th century may in fact be disappearing...
IRVING KRISTOL, U.S. writer, professor and editor (The Public Interest): Abe Lincoln is the prototype-the leader who is uncommon but not beyond emulation by the common man. He's not a Napoleon. This is American democratic politics. You don't want a world conqueror. In latter days John Kennedy had that uncommon-common quality; so did both Roosevelts, T.R. and F.D.R., although they were distinctly below Lincoln...
...collaboration between the director and his wife Margarethe von Trotta, who worked on the screenplay and who appears as Elisabeth, a performance of wonderfully explicit compassion. Trotta is able to seize on a well-observed moment, embellish it and build on it without ever becoming extravagant or false. Her uncommon artistry gives A Free Woman a strong and generative center. ∎ Jay Cocks