Word: weirdness
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...hey” song. The cheerleaders clapped rhythmically, bounced from foot to foot, and tried, unsuccessfully, to engage the crowd in call-and-response chants. When, for the first time since 1996, Barnstable lost, my brother says the other football players cried. “It’s weird how much it mattered to them,” he said...
...suppose an outside observer—or my mother—might have said the same of me: “It’s weird how much it mattered to them.” At Harvard, we tend to be hyperaware of anything that might cause offense; House lists and dining halls become ad hoc forums for debate. After spending time at Harvard, I am inclined to be sanctimonious. But watching the cheerleaders bouncing from foot to foot, intent on the game, I realized that my quest to foist The Feminine Mystique upon them was not only quixotic...
There are so many things to write about—the eerie tendency of major and stupid news sensations to coincide with embarrassments to the Bush administration, or the question of why, given Jackson’s weird history, people find this surprising enough to identify as “news.” But the most problematic thing in my mind stems from the associations of watching an SUV zip down a California highway as seen from a helicopter. While anchors and talking heads prayerfully whispered the word “Bronco” as if it might, repeated...
...know what I find weird? That people pay money for clothes. Shouldn’t it be a free necessity, like water...
...works trying to find behavioral gestures and then amplifying them in weird ways,” explained Benjamin D. Margo ’04, whose dual roles—Catholic conspirator and president of the HRDC—are sometimes conflated. “It all sounds so stupid—I’m peeing on trash cans and taking off my shirt and lifting weights.” (Margo’s corrupt Cardinal confesses to the Duke’s lover while sitting on a toilet...