Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Private eyes will peer around every corner of the schedule. There are two black sleuths, CBS'S James-Bonded superstud Shaft (played by Richard Roundtree, who created the role in the film of the same title), and NBC'S Tenafly, a harassed family man who is just another employee at an outfit called Hightower Investigations, Inc. ABC's Griff (Lome Greene) is an ex-cop while in NBC's Faraday and Company Dan Dailey is an ex-con who, after 28 years in a South American jail, is slated to battle future shock as well...
...Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, and a stalwart supporter of the separate freshman year concept, approved the program, but the duties of the upperclass advisers were never spelled out. Presumably they were to serve not as peer counselors, but as older peers...
...months of married life, she left her husband and baby daughter in favor of another man. Once he abandoned her, she was left alone in the world--a pariah from the social circles she had once frequented. Twenty years later she reads that her daughter has married a rich peer, Lord Windermere. Adopting the pseudonym 'Erlynne' as a disguise, she returns to London and sets out to blackmail Lord Windermere in the hope of retrieving her lost place in society...
...night the floodlights shine from rural houses while watchmen peer through barred windows for a glimpse of intruders. During the day, gun-bearing farmers vary the routine of their chores so that no sniper can plan an ambush. Though only twelve civilians have been killed so far, the six-month-old black insurgency in northeastern Rhodesia has already raised serious doubts about the future of Ian Smith's white supremacist government...
...problem comes," says Sociologist Chaim Adler, "when the child from the 'Oriental' family looks at his peer. The two serve together in the army as equals. But then one goes to work, while the other goes to the university. The son from the uncultured home forgets that his family used to live in a tent and now lives securely in an apartment. He only sees the son of the cultured home who is living three times better than he, and he wants the same...