Word: scanning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vulnerable, nothing equals that of a guest who stares straight at one's bookshelves. It is not the judgmental possibility that is frightening: the fact that one's sense of discrimination is exposed by his books. Indeed, most people would much prefer to see the guest first scan, then peer and turn away in boredom or disapproval. Alas, too often the eyes, dark with calculation, shift from title to title as from girl to girl in an overheated dance hall. Nor is that the worst. It is when those eyes stop moving that the heart too stops...
...irresponsible, gay-baiting rag, and later, Sauter's Salient. At Harvard, whatever discussion there has been on the conservative issue has also revolved around the newspaper Regardless of its extreme stands, it's impressive that they cared enough to get the thing off the ground, people say as they scan The Salient over lunch. Impressive, yes, but the impetus came from the outside--from a Washington-based right-wing funding organization called the Institute for Educational Affairs--in the form of an $8000 grant. Sauter and Co. have taken full advantage of the opportunity, but if you gave the committed...
...Scan these faces-young, feral, frightening-and look for clues. They are faces to be found at a municipal swimming pool, or bobbing asleep in the back row of a classroom, or peering through a pawnshop window, or avoiding the camera's eye on the 10 o'clock news. They are faces too tough to be scared and too unsure to be anything else. They hold mocking, omniscient mouths and a tough-guy stare that could burn a hole in an adult's best intentions. They are the faces of the young urban underclass...
...scan of the ECAC standings (see box) reveals other interesting trends. Two of Harvard's three wins have come against the worst two teams in the league, Maine (0-3) and Dartmouth (0-2). By contrast, Yale has handed Colgate and Clarkson their only losses, and beat a St. Lawrence team Saturday night that had upset Boston College the evening before. However, it is December, and Yale is still Yale--a team that hasn't finished better than seventh since...
Within a couple of months, SRI's thoughts on Langmuir Blodgett films will probably be discussed in Scan, a tightly written bimonthly summary of the SRI meetings. Some 475 U.S. and foreign corporations pay $12,000 yearly to subscribe to SRI's business intelligence program and to receive the eight-page Scan reports. The next issue of the pamphlet is also likely to contain articles on competition from Japan, the economic and social implications of the "information society," and the growing public antagonism about violent crimes by youth...