Word: seemly
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Paris and its inhabitants seem to spurn the traditional, anxious to show the world that they can find a new way to live, built on beauty, style, elegance--and ultimate equality. Have they succeeded? In the answer to that simple question lies the elixir of Paris that places some in its thrall and repels others...
...while his latest move might seem like a big career jump, Illingworth says it builds off of the interpersonal skills he developed in the admissions office, which he credits with teaching him to "remember that everybody comes as a new person" and to appreciate students' interests outside the classroom...
...while his latest move might seem like a big career jump, Illingworth says it builds off of the interpersonal skills he developed in the admissions office, which he credits with teaching him to "remember that everybody comes as a new person" and to appreciate students' interests outside the classroom...
...even Los Angeles, with all its other-worldly glitz and shabby 1920s glamour has some characteristics of Smalltown, U.S.A. Witnessing the hundreds who turned out to watch the fireworks in the stands of Valley College stadium made this cynical place seem a little more apple-pie American. That was until I was informed that both CBS and Paramount were charging admission for their fireworks in other parts of LA. Another reminder that entertainment doesn't come cheap, even on a National Holiday. Maybe Los Angeles is America though, and the archetypes are just that--out-dated non-existent memories...
...League. As two college students in a gaggle of high-school seniors and their parents practically beside themselves in the "Is this the right place?" soul searching, it was a chance to go incognito and try to remember what it is we do and why people seem to fawn so easily. ("That's a Harvard student," I recall a mother telling her daughter one morning my first year as I rushed half-awake to breakfast. Her daughter wrote it down dutifully. It must have read like a field study: "Harvard student. Stubbly...