Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interviews with department chairmen compiled in the report reveal the use of vague and widely varying procedures in job placement and advising of graduate students...
...hero cannot dissipate. The girl, Anada, remains almost totally silent in Yanos' presence. She neither denies nor confirms the flirtation that his jealousy sees in all her movements near other men. When he discovers her alone, bathing nude, her actions stay neutral: she does not speak; her eyes reveal neither contempt nor attraction; she leaves the water and walks past him. Yanos is suspended in time, his sexual longing keeping him from turning away, his morality from advancing towards her. He cannot speak, for Anada has offered him no frame of reference, and his own conflicting feelings negate each other...
...core. Raised as a bluestocking, Micol quips to Giorgio that she's writing her thesis on Emily Dickenson, "a dried-up spinster like me." Minutes later, in giving him a mock botany lesson, she points to a tree she imagines planted by Lucrezia Borgia. The connotations of that name reveal in her no dried-up spinster, but the malevolence of cruel sexuality. All her dewyeyed clinging to a golden past is merely the weapon she uses to emasculate Giorgio's overworshipful maleness at the altar of a bitchgoddess. Not only cold, she is consciously evil. Raising her eyes to meet...
...that family, as with all those he has visited. Coles got the youngsters to reveal themselves by asking them to draw with the crayons he carries everywhere; to one child, he became not Dr. Coles but the Crayon Man. He has taped hundreds of hours of conversation to study at home and to reproduce in his books, and he has tried to learn about people not only from their words but from "a nuance, a gesture, a way of looking." He takes photographs, too. "to hold near me and help guide my mind (and I hope my heart) a little...
...took his case to the press council. Spielman, himself one of the nine press representatives on the 18-member council, temporarily gave up his seat and appeared as defendant. He insisted that he had considered his sources for the story reliable, though he refused to reveal them...