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...they carefar more for their society than they do for thecollege...' "Year by year the deadly evil isgrowing. The society was never as obnoxious to thecollege as it is today, and it is just thisill-feeling that shuts the pockets of non-members.Never before has it shown such arrogance andself-fancied superiority. It grasps the collegepress and endeavors to rule it all. It does notdeign to show its credentials, but clutches atpower with the silence of conscious guilt...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: YALE'S FINEST HOURS | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...gray-clad...firm but a touch more ample than [is]locally fashionable..." Though costumed in theheavily scented, rarefied air of the uptownapartments of the pretentious and over-educated,the novel, in keeping with the spirit of its(anti)hero, is at heart an ever-so-slightlydoddering, luscious, highly sexualized andself-satirical backwards glance at a ratherunremarkable life of letters. His absolutelysucculent, if somewhat condescending descriptionsof leggy, perpetually nude women aside, Updikeexcels in dialogue, cocktail party dialogue, rifewith the sarcastic, incisive mental commentary ofBech. Some of the most revealing scenes in Bechat Bay are to be found in his alwaysflirtatious interactions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A REVIEW BY ADRIANE N. GIEBEL | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...have since written to the CCA anddisaffiliated myself from them," she said. "[Theyare] propelled by ambition andself-aggrandizement, and not dedication toprinciple...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Duehay Elected Mayor in Bizarre Vote | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

Hall says CUE ratings are combined with aninternal evaluation, a videotaped performance andself-evaluations to give section leaders feedbackon their teaching and in making hiring decisions...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: CUE Used in Hiring, Tenure Decisions | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

...think that any information about teaching[performance] must come from several sources, andstudent input should only be one of a number ofsources for that judgment," Wilkinson says. "Thatcould include evaluation by the course head,evaluation by a head teaching fellow, andself-evaluation by the teaching fellow...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: CUE Used in Hiring, Tenure Decisions | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

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