Sui
Americannoun
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This is also something that has brought us together, for good or for bad, and that has a governance which has been almost sui generis and which is working.
Sun Ra, birth name Herman Poole Blount, was born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1914 and grew up to become a sui generis jazz man, experimental musician, pioneer of electronic music and leader in ’60s free jazz.
Let us be thankful, for this national part of Mr. Sanders’s trajectory is less interesting than his pre-Washington years, when he made himself into a sui generis socialist—notably different from modern progressive politicians such as Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani.
Nearby, Yiran Sui was part of a Robotera team whose humanoid robot, developed for researchers, is training to complete the Beijing marathon a few months from now.
From Barron's
I don’t consider Klee—sui generis—to be a Surrealist, but “Fish Magic,” merging aquarium, children’s art, still life, cosmos and landscape, is the quintessential portrait of a dream.
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