Word: peering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welcome to the world of peer counseling at Harvard, where, as one counselor puts it, "you're not expected to be perfect...
Fayette County is what a West Virginian might call "fair to middlin.'" With an unemployment rate of 10 percent, it ranks 27th out of 55 West Virginia counties, and 24th in earnings per job. Fayette County is neither affluent nor dirt poor. If you peer into the "hollers," you can find wretched poverty. But most of the area is dotted by modest, clean houses and neat yards...
Okay, so here's this by-now tightlyknit group of people who finally think they've got it together, going out on a stage and exposing themselves (for the actors, as we've heard, is naked), and in comes this smart-ass dandy with a little notebook--this peer--who wasn't at any of those rehearsals, who hasn't put in any time, who can sit comfortably in a chair, scribbling away, and who, with a few sneering phrases, can choose to mock and malign everything that took two months to build. No wonder you hate the critic, even...
Second, they provide a forum for artistic debate. This sounds bloated and silly, but an intelligent, experienced critic, even a peer, can sometimes give you a lot of insight into a particular branch of the arts. If more people responded to reviews (or if more reviews were stimulating enough to respond to), some lively debates could be generated...
...women peer out to see what is going on, but no one seems too interested in the scuffle...