Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kiss or who knows what. It travels in mysterious ways, and everything, everyone, becomes suspect: a toilet seat, a child's cut, an act of love. Life slips into science fiction. People begin acting like characters in the first reel of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They peer intently at one another as if to detect the telltale change, the secret lesion, the sign that someone has crossed over, is not himself anymore, but one of them, alien and lethal. In the plague mentality, one belongs either to the kingdom of life or to the kingdom of death...
...stated that ability to utilize funds productively, to reach out to an audience and to plan an active future were also considered in selecting the ART and other recipients. Winners were selected by three separate panels of peer judges and ultimately approved by the NEA leadership...
...after day, network crews restlessly peer down from their perch in the Santa Ynez Mountains, looking for photo opportunities at the adobe ranch buildings three miles distant that serve as Ronald Reagan's Western White House. But thick swirls of morning fog and shimmering waves of afternoon heat obscure their camera view, and the subject stays half hidden in the shade...
...states in the Resolution, that "the CRR is a student-Faculty committee available to hear charges of violations of the Resolution's second and third paragraphs by students in the College or GSAS," then all cases of peer harassment should be diverted from the Ad Board to the CRR. The Faculty Council invalidates the existence of its own committee by not letting it exercise its full authority in the students' academic and social lives as well...
...fundamental to the functioning of any place of learning. I believe that the CRR should become an active body with power equal to that of the Ad Board and that its functions should reach beyond those indicated in the Resolution. For example, it should try all cases of harassment--peer, political, racial religious, and sexual--which involve any undergraduate or graduate student. The membership of the committee should change frequently--from case to case if possible--to ensure that each case has members new to its and new in outlook. Perhaps students should be randomly selected from pools suggested...