Word: shrug
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Meanwhile, the enigma. He goes on writing. If you talk of pain, he will sigh. If you talk of heroism, he will smile expansively. If, after this you ask him why he writes, he will probably shrug and keep his silence. What is there to say? Like the rest of us, he is only human. "I write," he says, "because I am miserable if don't write...
...carefully culling illustrations of incompetence, it is easy to attack any bureaucracy. But there is a brutally final test that may be applied to any university: What does the Faculty think. In the short run, the Faculty either dismisses errors with a tolerant shrug or remembers them with growing anger and resentment; it regards an administration as essentially reasonable or else it labels the bureaucracy as inflexible and impervious to reason...
...belted waist was in and so was the welt-seamed skirt that whirls like a skater's costume. Hemlines stayed put. The buyers' favorites were Givenchy's high bustline, soft-shouldered dresses and Balenciaga's short shrug jackets. A hemstitch away in popularity: Yves St. Laurent's "cowboy look" (sombreros, neckerchiefs), and Marc Bohan's Dior evening gowns that plunge front and back. Copies, adaptations and custom reproductions will be ready in U.S. shops this month...
...past few weeks, Harvard athletes have covered themselves and the University with their own particular kind of glory. Some members of this intellectual community will shrug off the triumphs of Harvard teams, and many will never even know that they occurred. But nothing should detract from the magnitude of these achievements; in their own realm, they represent what Harvard is searching for in every field--excellence...
...refreshing, then to hear a more disciplined piece: Louis Cohen's Formats, a 12-tone piece for violin, clarinet and piano. It began by shrugging its shoulders, then moved through flippancy and somberness before closing with a final shrug. But unfortunately several sustained unions jarred the style, as did a rasping clarinet and a generally crude performance...