Word: looming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decisions by the new committees on Housing and College Life to shut their doors to interested observers and reporters violate the principles of open, democratic government. They close students off from the issues that most directly concern them and that seem certain to loom as major in the coming months. Proposals to change policies on storage, renovations, House assignments and off-campus living all would ostensibly originate in the closed Committee on Housing, for instance...
...could win the chairmanship, but then again, anti-gay campus sentiment and the new council members' apparent fixation on procedural questions could work against him. Should his election he seen as a clear impossibility by the time the council meets to choose its leaders Sunday night, two possible scenarios loom...
...spoke to Fred [Jewett, dean of admissions and financial aid] about it. We began by conducting a survey of what seemed to be the reason why people didn't come here when they were admitted. Financial reasons do loom more important, and I understood from Fred that he and his staff were going to develop a program, as they always do when a problem emerges in admissions to deal with it I'm sure that it will mean intensified recruiting efforts...
...shame, but not a duster for American culture. Walker Percy? Joyce Carol Gates? Donald Barthelme? No. Philip Roth? Joseph Heller? William Styron? Truman Capote? John Gardner? John Irving? Norman Mailer? Stop It gets to be a pogrom. The mind flips through its card catalogue. Very few disastrous silences loom...
...camera was truth, he took photographs and worked from them; he was one of the first American artists to do so. He made drawing after drawing, from mere thumbnail sketches to stupendously elaborate perspective studies that include notes on such minutiae as eight cross sections of an oar from loom to blade, or the reflection of a distant bush in a ripple of water. To get the muscles of horse and man right, he modeled them...