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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ...One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate an... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...aw excludes such characters, and we shall send him away to another city after pouring perfumed oil upon his head and crowning him with ... ...break from their innate states of emptiness; and the connections sought from attractions that would be forsaken if the experiences seemed shallow and ... ...at's your impression of Italy so far?" "Well, it is hard to say with so many tourists. If they get rid of the tourists one can have an impression." S... ...ear fountains still spurting from ancient aqueducts, St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, and the catacombs. Their final whole day was filled with Et... ...f departing from America in a more permanent way than one could do as a mere tourist. She yearned to abscond from this country of sensationalized ser...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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The Williams Record

By: Student Media

...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ... need the earnings of child- ren. Hut investigation shows that in New York city, for example, out of the total population, but inO parents need such a... ...nb 245-3 OBITUARIES '57 —Simeon Howard Calhoun, a former mayor of Nebraska city, died in Denver, -Col. on March 4, at the age of 73. Mr. Calhoun was b... ...inson, Simpson, Skinner, Smith '11. In addition, there were eighteen other attractions requiring the services of forty-six other per- formers, and "Ho... ...d in blue ink were distribut- ed, which contained the menu and schedule of attractions for the evening. The program features in brief follow : 1. Musi... .... n. TAYLOR. Empire Theatre Saturday, Dec. 7—Raymond Hitolioook ip "Yankee Tourist." Week of Deo, 9 —Kirk Brown Co. Monday matinee, "The Eternal City.... ... will be hound permanent- ly in some kind of leather. It con- stitutes the Vatican Codiei Nos. :il<.)5, JU'.IO and 31S)7.and is enti- tled: "II Oodioi...

...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ituated in a part of T uscany somewhat remote from the or- dinary track of tourists. Thither we must now accompany him, and endeavor to make our story... ..., and insulated within a charmed and deadly circle. The crowd of wandering tourists betake themselves to Switzer- land, to the Rhine, or, from this ce... ...pon as provincial, after once hav- ing yielded to the spell of the Eternal City. The artist, who contemplates an indefinite succession of winters in t... ... butler, “it is even so, since he came back from that wicked and miserable city. The world has grown either too evil, or else too wise and sad, for su... ...r engine, it would have been ultimately impossible for Hilda to resist the attractions of a faith, which so marvellously adapts itself to every human ... ...lf-expressed understanding, that both were to visit the gal- leries of the Vatican the day subsequent to their meeting at the studio. Kenyon, accordin... ...l often reveal itself to two. Missing such help, Kenyon saw nothing at the Vatican which he had not seen a thou- sand times before, and more perfectly...

...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordin...

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A Little Tour in France

By: Henry James

...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...st as we are accused of being too apt to think that Paris is the celestial city. This is by no means the case, fortunately for those per- sons who tak... ...nd he started, one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fru... ...m it was pleasant to meet. Throughout my little tour I was almost the only tourist. That is perhaps one reason why it was so successful. 4 A Little T... ...of courts and terraces, into which the trav- eller who wanders through the Vatican looks down from neglected windows. They show you two or three furni... ... elo- quence of ruin ought to put the Republic on its guard. A sentimental tourist may venture to remark that in the presence of several chateaux whic... ... really more interesting,—a group of stunted savages who formed one of the attractions of the place, and were confined in a pen in the open air, with ... ...- ally more concentrated; but the school of medicine passed for one of the attractions of Montpellier. Long before Mentone was discovered or Colorado ...

Excerpt: A Little Tour in France by Henry James.

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The Marble Faun : Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, Illustrated with Photogravures

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...n or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne Complete Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ed. Or, as was perhaps a more plausible theory, he might be a thief of the city, a robber of the Campagna, a political 26 The Marble Fawn offender, o... ...y have come down, with still grander and loftier mien, on their way to the Vatican or the Quirinal, there to put off their scarlet hats in exchange fo... ...self came forth, and taking her way through some of the intricacies of the city, entered what might be called either a widening of a street, or a smal... ...ortal pencils of old. So Hilda became a copyist: in the Pinacotheca of the Vatican, in the galleries of the Pam-fili-Doria palace, the Borghese, the C... ...ge motley garb which Michael Angelo contrived for them. T wo young English tourists (one of them a lord) took contadine partners and dashed in, as did... ... artists, with a sprinkling of their English brethren; and some few of the tourists who still lin- gered in Rome, now that Holy W eek was past. Miriam... ...r engine, it would have been ultimately impossible for Hilda to resist the attractions of a faith, which so marvellously adapts itself to every human ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Roderick Hudson by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ivate proposals, and then present his treasures out of hand to an American city, not unknown to ; aesthetic fame, in which at that time there prevaile... ...s. He said to himself, as he had said more than once in the Louvre and the Vatican, “We ugly mor- tals, what beautiful creatures we are!” Nothing, in ... ...‘s on my conscience that I ought to take you to Rome, walk you through the Vatican, and then lock you up with a heap of clay. I sail on the fifth of S... ...n art- world, had not hitherto been subject to incursions from inquisitive tourists, and, having no regular reception day, was not versed in the usual... ...n a jar- gon she does n’t understand, and you and I, proper, pas- sionless tourists, come lounging in to rest from a walk. And yet the Catholic church... ...e with a truly refined American lady? The duchesses the other night had no attractions for my eyes; they looked coarse and sensual! It seemed to me th... ... tears, in despair, in dishabille!” Rowland reflected a moment, not on the attractions of Mrs. Light under the circumstances thus indicated by the Cav...

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