Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study abroad experiences must be suspiciously monitored to maintain "quality control." Davis, for instance, recommended in his memo to Fox that Faculty require study abroad students "to bring all written work for the appropriate faculty members to review." His attitude is reminiscent of grammar school, where teacher kept an eye on the kiddies all the time...
...other hand, the photograph inside is a beauty. The colors are strong and vibrant, just like the man. He looks you straight in the eye and holds your interest. There is a quiet confidence and a seriousness softened by a touch of sadness in his expression. It would have made a great cover...
Sagan has a history of this sort of dabbling. First swept into the public eye on the coat-tails of the Viking missions to Mars as one of the expedition's moving minds, his impudence, optimism, and imagination, won him national attention. Johnny Carson has toasted him. The New Yorker has profiled him, countless universities have ensnared him as their graduation speaker. He made movies with Francis Ford Coppola, chaired the National Book Awards, and rubbed elbows with celebrities of every ilk. He is, if you will, the shooting star of the astronomical profession...
...Green Meanies crossed most of the way over Sir Anderson when they met the keeper of the bridge. He was gnarled and hunchbacked, with a great beard that dragged along the ground. He had but one eye, and a hook where his right hand should have been. He carried a mammoth spiked club and wore the skins of diverse and many beasts that he had ripped from their backs with his bare hands. He was known only as Kob, and was the great mystery of the kingdom...
Suddenly, fluttering streamers catch your eye. Pom-poms. Outfitted in coordinated crimson and white pleated skirts and sweaters, cheerleaders, honest -to-god cheerleaders, are moving in from the sidelines...