Word: frown
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...candle box attached to the cowcatcher on the front end of the train. There she was thrilled by "the novelty, the excitement and the fun of this mad ride...with magnificent mountains before and around me, their lofty peaks smiling down on us, and never a frown on their grand faces." More than a century later, the Rockies still smile down on passengers traveling across Canada aboard VIA Rail's Canadian, which now takes a more northerly route through British Columbia and Alberta...
...camera. Yet, we see that Shahn's photography employs method in its apparent randomness--there is one man that draws our attention. This man is in the center of the photograph and in focus, and we see that he seems to be deep in thought, with a slight frown on his face...
...worried that we can't pinpoint this beginning: the first labeling, the first frown, the first parody. The snowballing effect of reputation has a tremendous power to shape future endeavor. It is the power of junior high school popularity contests and the subtle consensus of entire disciplines, the power of suggestion and the slow crafting of taste. It remains to be seen whether it is possible to separate out the crucible where opinion is formed, to shape the sways of reputation, to find the voice speaking...
...Relations between the sexes often expose the fissure caused by the combination of college and capitalism. Romances are occassionally consummated on pieces of office furniture, according to one former editor who requested anonymity. But as D. Jonathan Dawid, editor of Let's Go: France, puts it, "We don't frown upon romance in the same office the way they might in a professional organization." Liasons at Let's Go's 67 Mt. Auburn HQ aren't serious--just a reflection of the organization as a way for students to spend their free time as well as work a job. "Most...