Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HISTORICAL and mythical material is constantly enlivened by the author's own eye and ear for the social customs of the region. He switches easily from the details of daily life--Pedro watching his kint on her knees grinding corn--to those of religious ceremony--Pedro helping prepare the food to be buried with his father. But his special sensitivity is his knack of combining the ordinary with the lofty, comparing the ecstasies of the saints, for instance, to eating chiles ("The heat is fine for a time, but afterwards the discomfort in the back field is too great...
Parker will also have a portable closed-circuit video tape system available for a more visual appraisal of an oarsman's style. In all, one gets the impression that with ergometers, instant replay and Parker's practiced eye, the eventual American entries should be as close to an impartial, representative group as one could wish...
ACCORDING TO THE EYE of the beholder, in this case the Crimson, news in Cambridge this year was dominated by politics--a favorite topic in this City. But there were also the perennial issues of housing and rent control, crime in the streets, and transportation...
...young historians who did not receive tenure this year, expressed the view of most junior faculty when he said. "The system is so constructed in theory and practice as to provide good teaching only by accident. On the one hand, those hired for permanency are not hired with an eye to their teaching ability. On the other hand, those who are junior faculty teach under conditions of such stress, overwork and career anxiety, knowing the odds are 99 to 1 that they won't be kept here, that they put their energy into getting their theses and other publications into...
Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez...