Word: facing
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...oversee their installation and playing. He is vividly described by Mason Hammond in a 1936 document preserved in the Harvard University Library. Saradjeff was supposed to be a genius of ringing--a tortured but prolific composer of carillons with an ear tuned to the exact pitch of bronze. His face had been horribly disfigured during the war. He spoke no English and had a history of epilepsy. Without delay Saradjeff retired to the basement of J and K entries to tune the smaller bells, a cacophonous process involving endless tapping and filing. For weeks he wandered from bell to bell...
...When the smoke was coming out at full force, I couldn't see the face of Sanders [Theatre]," Han said...
...last weekend was great and it will definitely give us some momentum this weekend," Harvard Coach Mark Mazzoleni said. "We're going to face a lot like that over the course of the season and we need to be ready...
...Learning to Kill in War and Society, argues that most soldiers try to avoid killing and, when forced to kill, experience stages of thrill, remorse and rationalization. Bourke focuses on only one of these stages of emotion, thrill, ignoring the others. Similarly, she completely neglects John Keegan's The Face of Battle and mentions Richard Holmes's Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle only in passing. Bourke's failure to discuss such important works on warfare undermines her credibility...
...resonates in me: "I am the brainchild, I am the mortar, with a plastic trophy and an eating disorder and a vision as big as a great big wall, and they tell me that I'll move forward for the good of us all." This illustrates the dilemma women face, as we are expected to be the mortar which holds society and family together, but also encouraged to move forward, though unable to see past the aesthetic images which also colonize our minds...