Word: unexpectedness
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Harvard is a great place to nourish a guilty pleasure. It’s real easy: just lie to your roommate, something innocuous, like “I’m going to study in Lamont.” Then disappear for six hours of Magic: The Gathering or ?...
The new study’s conclusion was unexpected, according to Gross, who pointed to the common perception that professors are “not only liberal, but many are quite radical in their beliefs.” However, he clarified that the moderates in academia are still relatively left...
It’s difficult not to be taken aback by the infusion of hues in “Gods in Color,” one of the latest exhibits to fill the rooms of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, running from Sept. 22, 2007 to Jan. 20, 2008. The...
Though she is a self-proclaimed feminist, Katha Pollitt’s latest work defies easy stereotype. The biographical essays in “Learning to Drive” touch on a variety of unexpected subjects, including the melodramatics of break-ups and cheating boyfriends. “The book...
It's not surprising that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn still regularly riles parents when it's taught in school; Mark Twain's 1884 classic is soaked with racial epithets. Some of the other books challenged or banned from classrooms or libraries in the past year are more unexpected. To...