"I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month".
We got some rights today". "I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month". Today possibility was peculiar to everyone and it was happening to me right now on a Wednesday in June on the steps of a duplex in Silver Lake.
In the 1980s there was a sterile opposition of "traditional", as something liked only by the public, and "modern" as something peculiar to professionals, which has now diminished.
This is a global phenomenon rather than something peculiar to the United States.
Then it was documented in a rare pediatric cancer, but was dismissed as something peculiar to that cancer.
We also need to see that history as part of a larger, longer, global history of empire, not as something peculiar to us.
But they're campaigning in an age when politicians are forced to compete with entertainment celebrities for TV time and magazine covers, and the temptation to do something peculiar to get attention keeps expanding.
"There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart," wrote Samuel Johnson, "a desire of distinction, which inclines every man to hope, and then to believe, that nature has given himself something peculiar to himself".
She also suspects the Ramsay stereotype of the demon chef is something peculiar to TV. "In 29 years as a chef I've run into guys who were maybe 30-40% of the persona that Gordon Ramsay exudes," she says.
You could also add "Citizen Kane" to the list of old-style heroes with new-style narrators, of course, and that raises an issue with the idea of these scripts: the scripts apply to scripts, as much as to books, and therefore seem just to be stories that work, rather than something peculiar to the novel.
The fact that reading scores do not show a corresponding drop suggests that something peculiar to science instruction is the key.
