Word: peering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...critizes the lack of peer evaluation and scruitiny after tenure as an inherent weakness. To replace tenure, she advocates negotiating renewable faculty contracts. In addition, Parker feels that since only a small proportion of faculty members engage in scholarly research, it makes little sense to limit their careers to academia. She suggest that more teachers become part-time and pursue a career in the outside world. She reasons that for professors, greater exposure to the world outside the Ivy walls would considerably upgrade their contribution to teaching...
Emile Nolde's "Portrait of Mary Wigman," one of the few non-abstract works in the collection, stands out in bold simplicity to the rest of the works in the show. In an exhibit where you have to peer at Paul Klee's miniscule scribblings with your nose six inches from the paper, Nolde's portrait grabs you from the doorway...
...Merriwether Return from Memphis?, was given its world premiere. After the curtain dropped, a bash ensued in the theater lobby, complete with torrents of champagne and the sound of jazz classics rendered by the Basin Street Band, flown in from New Orleans for the occasion. A man without peer among living dramatists deserves no less, and he was a warm and affable guest of honor...
...succeed" here too often feel they must do so by beating out their friends, by academic toadying or by unrelenting competitiveness. Today at Harvard, the majority of students, faculty and administrators are alienated from each other, locked into a self-perpetuating cycle of contempt, resentment and hostility. Professors peer down at students from the podium and avoid them elsewhere. Students don't go to office hours, and if a professor sits down with them at lunch they stammer or leave. Administrators sneer at student activists, who retaliate with accusations of immorality or deliberate evil. Students cry to advisers, and advisers...
...part, the I.O.C. is adamantly opposed to moving the Games. "It's Moscow or nowhere," said Lord Killanin, an Irish peer who has served as president of the I.O.C. since 1972. Killanin argued that it would be "virtually physically impossible" to shift the Games to another site, and that in any case the I.O.C. is obligated to fulfill its 1974 contract with the Soviet Union for the Moscow Games. U.S. officials nonetheless plan to ask the I.O.C. to take up the question of moving the Summer Games at its next scheduled meeting, at Lake Placid, N.Y., early next month...