Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personalization drive, Schelsky would invoke the force of peer-group pressure: he would make good driving socially rewarding, dangerous driving socially reprehensible, perhaps by keeping a man's friends posted on his "driving morality." Explains the professor: "If, in his own office, a person is considered an exemplary driver or an antisocial one, this may carry more weight than a discount on car insurance or a secretly paid fine...
...blue cutout doily. It is the serpent in Eden. "This," Andersen scribbled under it, "is the snake of knowledge, representing both good and evil." The dilemma of coming to grips with any work of art became the subject of another image, "Art and the Critic"-a fop peers through a lorgnette at a mocking head faceted with many small variants of the same face that peer from within-all invented, it seems, by the writer at work in his cell in the creature's neck. The critic can see the face, not what lies behind...
...Miss Anthony and the other precursors of Women's Lib, Graduate Mishkin staked out some ground of her very own. It was a very feminine declaration, all in impeccable Latin, that today's woman does not necessarily want to be man's superior, but simply his peer: "Together, let us establish a new society, the foundations of which will be ... not fear, but good will; not war between the sexes, but loyal brotherhood and sisterly love." Whether or not Harvard's graduating males got the message, they gave Classicist Mishkin an enthusiastic hand...
...meaning behind the meaning in his stories is that the old main lines of communication are down. The simple, the forthright, the straightforward can no longer be confidently said. For the time being at least, messages must be sent by mirrors. And at that game, Donald Barthelme knows no peer...
...could have given us a canned war briefing, which would have demeaned whatever relation we have with him. If he'd tried to dissociate himself with the policy. I would have walked out. But he behaver with great grace and dignity and courage under intense emotional pressure from his peer group...