1.   Stigler scoffed at the quaint idea of university as a place where a professor and a small group of students can sit in a study and discuss great thoughts.

2.   In an age when gadgets let e-mail and the Web follow people virtually everywhere, a portable fax machine and photocopier seems like a quaint idea.

3.   Now that making money has suddenly become a less quaint idea for dot-com start-ups, Fact City has a profit-minded business model.

4.   Quaint idea.

5.   What a quaint idea.

6.   What a quaint idea!

7.   You may find yourself pausing before the quaint idea of the American theater today as an avenue to mainstream success.