Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each case the essential subject is the same-a woman surrounded by a crowd of men, who peer at her, offer advice, listen or look with varying degrees of veiled prurience, and otherwise impose on her. In The Arts-Drawing, 1760, the old man is rhapsodizing over her work as though she were a gifted parrot learning, at last, to repeat a phrase, while the supercilious drawing master points to the model she must copy. In the crammed, tilted space, the heads on their distorted bodies swell grotesquely, like pale masks. Every detail of costume is there-one could dress...
Kirby and Whittemore began complaining to U.M.C. officials about Chatterjee's performance in 1979. Kirby contends that an internal investigation focused on personality conflicts among staff rather than the surgeon's competence. "There is no effective peer review at the medical center," declares Kirby...
Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "Those schools reflect a backlash against rampant peer domination in junior high and high schools in the country as a whole." Parents of students who have transferred out of public high schools complain that their children were made fun of for wanting to study and for refusing to dance or take drugs. As Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, former editor of Christianity Today, puts it: "A reasonable case is no longer made' in the public schools for moral absolutes...
Another problem screeners look for is the possibility of teachers having friends in their sections, raising the worry of "peer evaluation" most frequently voiced by critics of the setup. "It doesn't happen," Kaye says, explaining that section assigners deliberately separate friends and acquaintances. A set grading curve and a common final, which none of the section leaders sees beforehand, also help alleviate the possibility of bias, Hughes-Hallet says, adding "Just about the only way someone could help a friend get a good grade would be to teach him math...
...clung to hope in the face of the caprice of Europe. Waletzky, together with co-producer Susan Lazarus, has produced a stunning documentary, digging up a wealth of stunning stills and creating an almost surreal setting. The eyes in the manifold black-and-white photos and primitive film footage peer out penetratingly. If the test of any documentary is its ability to capture mood and convey a message. Rabetzky and his cohorts have succeeded admirably--Image's subjects live and breathe...