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...always be working towards a moral) is why this is so. Why is it that so many of the verbs we use which come from nouns have to do with technology? There are exceptions of course—‘clowning’ came from ‘clown??, ‘toying’ perhaps from ‘toy’—but why have we been particularly uncreative when it comes to describing what we do with new inventions?One possibility is that technology, particularly these days, is moving so quickly...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: e-Verb-erating | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...broker, the maker of the world!” The novel powerfully integrates life and history, rendering the ways in which people react to times of crisis, sometimes fighting to preserve a way of life and other times shrinking into cowardice. Though much of “Shalimar the Clown?? is enhanced by details of Kashmiri history, the fourth section, also entitled “Shalimar the Clown,” is burdened by the superfluous particulars of Shalimar’s 15-year foray into the world of Islamic fundamentalism, forcibly drawing our attention away from...

Author: By Jessica A. Berger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shalimar the Clown | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Company members taught three acting workshops—“The Neutral Mask,” “The Chorus,” and “Introduction to Clown??—in addition to a tech workshop...

Author: By Kiran K. Deol, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pig Iron Revels in Offbeat Theater | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...even then the man who many remember as a “class clown?? or a “nice guy” displayed the characteristics that have become his trademarks: the charisma that helped him skyrocket into the government’s highest office and a sureness of vision that some decry as dangerously stubborn...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Man on Campus | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

Some students had a very different view of what Bush’s seat indicated. Bush was “more of a class clown than a serious student,” remembers Kuhn, one of several classmates who used the term “class clown?? to describe Bush...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Man on Campus | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

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