Word: objection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purses and carry switchblades. A knife, alas, is not enough for Duke. He longs with mystical intensity to possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white man's world. The film describes how Duke fails to find the object of his obsession but discovers that a knife is also able to kill a man. At the fade, two white policemen begin to beat him brutally...
When asked about the possibility of acquiring more land, Kennedy said, "We're going to have to work on that." The land along Western Avenue behind the library site contains several unsightly buildings. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 said Saturday that this property is currently the object of litigation between the owners and the Turnpike authority...
Tracing the progressive refinement of artifacts, Sir Herbert outlined their evolutionary sequence in terms of refinement to maximum efficiency, and then further refinement to form. When this occurs, as in the case of a tool becoming a ceremonial object (for example, the ax becoming a mace), form is divorced from function, and thus freed to develop on the laws and principles called esthetics...
...began to react to spiritual rather than utilitarian needs as his consciousness of form evolved. Sir Herbert maintained "There is an independent will to form when the object has attained maximum efficiency and is stabilized." The forms then established by the artist may have universal significance...
Citing Heidegger, Sir Herbert explained, "Form belongs to essence of being." Not until maximum efficiency is reached can the object become form, uniting and maintaining the tension of opposites. The object which emerges has form due to its interrelatedness and harmony. The Greeks had no word for "art" because they did not distinguish it from "being...