Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benn insists he is not a Marxist. Yet during the present crisis, he has uncritically supported militant maneuvering to expand the left's power. Not surprisingly, last week Benn was made a member of Foot's shadow cabinet. Says the man who became famous as "the reluctant peer": "The only time the leaders will take any notice is when those of us who put them where they are today also have the power to remove them...
...there was some good news, too. Surveying about 17,000 high school seniors every year since 1975, University of Michigan researchers found that the number of students smoking daily has dropped by more than one-fourth in the past three years. Reasons: heightened peer disapproval and increasing concern about health...
...syntax cannot fairly be compared with Picasso's, Tatlin's, Brancusi's or even David Smith's-she has a very deep reservoir of feeling that has infused her art and saves it from looking arid or repetitious. As a sculptor of feeling, her only peer among living American artists is Isamu Noguchi. In a time of short careers and small careerists, in a commercialized art world strewn with cultural ghosts and aesthetic trivia, her obsessed, delicate and nocturnal imagination remains unusual, a legacy from the romantic belief in the healing and transforming powers...
Reagan is also TIME'S Man of the Year because he stands at the end of 1980 looking ahead, while the year behind him smolders in pyres. The events of any isolated year can be made to seem exceptionally grim, but one has to peer hard to find elevating moments in 1980. Only Lech Walesa's stark heroism in Poland sent anything resembling a thrill into the world. The national strike he led showed up Communism as a failure?a thing not done in the Warsaw Pact countries. Leonid Brezhnev, a different sort of strongman, had to send troops...
...lively as crickets. Liz and Rock, Kim and Tony and, of course, dear Angela, all seem enthusiastic about putting their slightly thickened selves on public display so that older members of the audience can check their memories of what once was with what now is, and youngsters can peer quizzically at their parents and speculate on the basis for such odd enthusiasms...