Word: roughnesses
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...would be a sorrowful picture except for the fact that Lincoln's mouth is turned ever so slightly into a smile. The smile doesn't negate the sorrow. But it alters tragedy into grace. It's as if this rough-faced, aging man has cast his gaze toward eternity and yet still cherishes his memories--of an imperfect world and its fleeting, sometimes terrible beauty. On trying days, the portrait, a reproduction of which hangs in my office, soothes me; it always asks me questions...
...Lincoln stated. "I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel." For Douglass, slavery was not only a sin but "piracy and murder." And both men explained their destiny by quoting the same lines from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will...
...fire against the chill by the time the women arrived at her place to nail down September's issue. From 1915 until it closed four years ago, Harriet's place was called Young's Hotel. Built by her father John Young, it is hand-hewn pine and stucco, rough planks, notched banisters, Navajo blankets and deer heads on the walls--a set for any movie that goes by the name of Stagecoach. It had 16 rooms to let upstairs above the dusty front desk, rooms you let yourself into. "Our guests just went in the rooms and paid the next...
...that last statement, so say all the other newspaper hands, all of them unpaid. It costs about $300 a month to publish the Cuba News. Any moneys above that go into the community, band uniforms for the high school and whatnot. With the exception of a rough period about three years ago, Cuba's merchants, whose immediate market numbers but a scant 1,500 citizens, have kept the News in the black with their advertising (full page, $50; half, $25; quarter, $12.50; want ad, $2). And even during that lean spot, when word got around that the paper might...
Rosenthal says the timing of the announcement was his idea: "I was itching to get on to writing the column." Some Times veterans wonder how well Frankel, who has been removed from day-to-day news coverage for 13 years, will handle the rough-and-tumble of the Times's third-floor newsroom. Yet his journalistic credentials are impeccable (he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Nixon's trip to China in 1972). Some predict that Frankel will nudge the Times away from Rosenthal's more feature-oriented approach and back toward a more traditional hard-news...