Word: gall
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...from the city center. He assembled his prints in albums, which he sold to local museums, galleries and the Bibliothèque Nationale. "Carrying his heavy and outmoded equipment on his back, casually and poorly dressed, he became himself a picturesque figure," write curators Sylvie Aubenas and Guillaume Le Gall in the show's sumptuous catalogue. Indeed, during World War I some passersby suspected Atget of being a spy, and he chose to lie low for a while...
...Lian Ji,” which was titled, “Princeton University is racist against me, I mean, non-whites.” The reference was clearly to Jian Li, the now-Yale freshman who prattishly filed a lawsuit against Princeton last year for having the gall not to admit him, allegedly because of the admission committee’s prejudice against Asian Americans. The article, co-written with Asian students on the Daily Princetonian’s staff, went on to complain—in broken English—Princeton’s latent antipathy towards admitting Asian...
...struggle of the mind to fathom the brain it inhabits is the most circular kind of search--the cognitive equivalent of M.C. Escher's lithograph of two hands drawing one another. But that has not stopped us from trying. In the 19th century, German physician Franz Joseph Gall claimed to have licked the problem with his system of phrenology, which divided the brain into dozens of personality organs to which the skull was said to conform. Learn to read those bony bumps, and you could know the mind within. The artificial--and, ultimately, racist--field of craniometry made similar claims...
...quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will...
Each and every reading period, Lamont Library’s brightly lit, over-heated insides echo with our quiet cursing of all those instructors who had the gall to assign thousands of pages of material, without even pretending to hold us accountable during the term. In short, it’s the perfect time to ask us to fill out course evaluations...