Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judy Collins and Livingston Taylor. Liv is higher-pitched than his brother, though fortunately not as high-strung. He can be seen frequently at the People's Bank--Coolidge--standing in line like one of the, um, people, although a discreet peek at the blue paper in his skinny hand reveals that he may be closer to the corpulent and feline species. Anyway, he banks there, and his concerts are really pleasant--he's charming, sings funny songs, and has a good amateurish style. And his feel for the North Carolina whence the Taylors come (oh, alright, Chapel Hill...
Most of these stories catch authors with their wigs off or their guards down. But not all anecdotes diminish their subjects. For every example of crankiness or distemper, there is a peek at private heroism and unsuspected virtues: Sir Walter Scott dictating three novels while he writhed in agony from attacks of gallstones; Samuel Johnson quietly doing public penance for a childhood act of disobedience committed 50 years earlier; Oscar Wilde, in prison and disgrace, discussing books with his respectful jailer; Poet John Stubbs, condemned to have his right hand cut off for offending Queen Elizabeth I, lifting...
...want to retain the option of arming some of their SS-18s with single warheads and some with MIRVS. The U.S. argued that such a mix makes policing the SALT agreement nearly impossible. Reason: the satellite photos both sides use to count the number of missiles are unable to "peek" inside the tip of the missile to see if it has a multiple warhead. The U.S. position has thus been that once a class of missile has been tested with MIRVs, all units of that class must be considered MIRVed...
...elevator doors close behind you on the seventh floor of William James Hall, the stink of pigeon droppings consume the air. To your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough...
Permissive Flab. Even now, Liddy hardly tells all; he does not even use the word Watergate. But he does provide a fascinating peek into his psyche, writing what could be taken as a justification of the spying activities that he proposed and supervised. He perceives a radical threat to the "constitutional system" because the right of peaceful assembly "to seek redress of grievances was corrupted into violence, and freedom of expression into license." Words such as fatherland crop up repeatedly, along with Liddy's conviction that the U.S. is smothering and softening in permissive flab. He praises the "tough...