Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tight pants on the streets of Havana. Or long hair. One female guardian of the faith would pick a piece of scrap paper off the pavement, swipe it across the face of a suspected homosexual and, if it came away bearing traces of makeup, solemnly file it in his dossier. Taking a page from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally, learned to register false enthusiasm for female nudes, according to Poet Heberto Padilla, who insists that "manly" homosexuality was rampant...
Professors say that Dreben's wide-ranging academic background reinforces his administrative duties, which also include making certain that the department's dossier of a tenure nomination is complete. This is the file of papers the department assembles to buck its case for a tenure nomination...
Graduate students are advised to establish a dossier at their career services office as a repository for their letters. Undergraduates should request that a copy of each letter be sent to their permanent file with their academic tutor...
Indeed, there is nothing quite like the society anywhere in the U.S. Much of the group's success is due to the careful selection process. Former fellows and distinguished scholars all over the world nominate their most talented students. Each candidate's dossier is examined by two senior fellows. The finalists are flown in for unnerving interviews during which senior fellows look for lively minds and the ability to communicate ideas. The easiest field to choose from, senior fellows agree, is physics, a discipline in which talent is evident early. The most difficult is the humanities...
...Miami. Says an FBI memo of April 21, 1972: "Subject's activities being closely followed, and any information developed indicating violation of federal laws will be immediately furnished to pertinent agencies in an effort to neutralize any disruptive activities of the subject." The bureau even stuffed into its dossier lyrics from Lennon's antiwar songs...