Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1860s, the monarch "must sign his own death warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to him." But the prestige of Victoria grew and grew, nor were her prerogatives trifling: she could disband the army, unman the navy, set free all prisoners, make every British citizen a peer...
...want to stand at the rim of the world," he once wrote, "and peer into the darkness beyond, and see a little more than others have see, of the strange shapes of mystery that inhabit that unknown night...I want to bring back into the world of men some little bit of new wisdom. There is a little wisdom in the world; Heraclitus, Spinoza, and saying here and there. I want to add to it, even if only ever so little...
...soothing accompaniment of society's tried-and-true Music Maker Meyer Davis-who wrote for the occasion a number that began "Dede loves to travel and dance all night . . ." Downstairs, under a sign reading DEDE'S PEPPERMINT LOUNGE, the belle of the ball and her peer group rattled the chandeliers keeping time to the Bo Diddley twist combo-and took their refreshments from a mobile hot-dog cart. Some Latino envoys-notably the uninvited-muttered sourly that the'affair was a "profanation" of the OAS building, but Nicaraguan Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa. dean of the capital...
IOLANTHE, Or The Peer and the Peri, presented by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players at Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe, tonight and Saturday at 8 p.m., with a matinee at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The play will also be presented next week...
...other-directed. The categories are ideal types, and they don't work well on real people--this much Riesman admits: they are, in fact, polarities of behavior. But much of this collection of critiques is devoted to showing something else: that imprecision in explaining other-direction, in contrasting real peer groups with theory, and in examining the modern role of the family has produced over-simplification that verges on the irrelevant...