Word: peeking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue said, "C'mon Blue, why you telling stories in the street for noth'n" ...I don't know...I guess I'm looking for my brother...he died long ago, you know...and he called me Brother Blue...So if you see my brother, he'll be playing peek-a-boo...and though he can't talk, look at him...make your move...my brother's trying to say 'Do you love me?' ...look around you, people...your brother's you...your brother's blue...
...what Vladimir Nabokov calls "the fundamentally medieval world of Freud, with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying, from their natural nooks, upon the love life of their parents." To Bettelheim, Goldilocks' peek into the bears' house "evokes associations to the child's desire to find out the sexual secrets of adults ..." The number of bears is also darkly allusive: "In the unconscious, the number three stands for sex because each sex has three visible sex characteristics: penis...
...some other students set it up. Nat Sci 90 will use it, instead of the "9" telescope on the Observatory roof, for the simple projects that can still be done there, where the city obscures the stars. The occasional amateur can come up on Friday nights to peek at the lavender and cornerless box of Cambridge sky. If the moon rattles, the Observatory will doubtless hear about it from a computer, or a satellite...
...literary organization. Despite the difficulties that the Schecters experienced in penetrating Soviet society, and perhaps because of them, this book is valuable as a record of first-person accounts of the Soviet experience. It goes beyond the standard platitudes about the Soviet Union to provide at least a frustrated peek at Russian life...
...CALL ALL these old cartoons mere nostalgia pieces is to deny that old ladies still might comment to each other "I love driving. It gives me such a sense of power," as they did in an early 40s Helen Hokinson; that a young woman might peek into a mirror and say to her reflection "Boo! You pretty creature" as in a late 20s Peter Arno; or that these situations might strike a responsive chord in any of our lives...