Word: uncommonness
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...these is a special section reporting in detail on an uncommon conference, of which Time Inc. was a major sponsor, held last week in New York City. Inspired by Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth), the 1963 encyclical of the late Pope John XXIII, the conference brought together more than 1,500 philosophers, theologians, statesmen and diplomats of widely different backgrounds from all around the world. In what were idealistic and admittedly quite general terms, they discussed peace and how it might be attained...
...memory; the flags at the new Music Center were lowered to half-mast. And perhaps the best tribute of all came from his fans. On the day following his death, Capitol Records was deluged with orders for more than 1,000,000 of his records-the legacy of an uncommon King who would know no successor...
...conception and success of the Mustang: Assistant General Manager Donald Nelson Frey, 41, who engineered the Mustang from its beginning as the division's product planner. An assistant professor in metallurgy at the University of Michigan before he joined Ford in 1951, Frey is Detroit's most uncommon auto executive, a sort of thinking man's automaker. He speaks Russian and French, is an opera and archaeology buff, reads such publications as Red China's English-language Peking Review and the London Times's Literary Supplement along with his engineering journals. Though...
...classes and thinking of North Carolina in the morning. Thus begins what the reader fears will be just another could-he-or-couldn't-he-go-home-again book. And it is, save for a couple of differences. For one, First Novelist Anne Tyler, 22, approaches commonplaces with uncommon empathy, insight and wit; and for another, her protagonist has to address himself to an additional puzzle. The chill on Manhattan's Morningside Heights is nothing compared with that in the hearts of his family...
...that time, groups of homosexuals lived together in apartments they rented en masse. The apartments were called "camps," and by extension the residents thereof were also called camps-I don't know why not campers, but they weren't. "He's a camp," was not an uncommon phrase...