Word: objection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many students object to the University's naming only an architect to design the building. "Sociologists, and psychologists should have also been named," Robert W. Yelton, editor of Connection, the student operated Design School magazine, said yesterday...
...architect as proven by Scarborough College. The building and the educational system must develop together. If the intention is to make this a collaborative effort there must be an interdisciplinary team. Mr. Andrews, working in the traditional architect-client-consultant framework, will have no alternative but to create an object d'art like Scarborough, or Yale's Arts and Architecture building. Such an event would be an anachronistic catastrophe and inconsistant with the awakening philosophy of environmental design present in the Graduate School of Design. Robert Yelton Second year student in The Graduate School of Design
...heard the expression run for your life," cried Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, 47. "Well, let's run." With that, the Secretary shuffled off on a two-mile lope along the Potomac, followed in lemming-like procession by 40 other fitness kooks. Object was to publicize the health-giving joys of jogging. "It's the best form of exercise there is," said Udall, who has established four "jogging trails" in Washington parks. The only drawback, as jogging Devotee Judy Schwartz, 28, noted, "is that people think you are nuts...
...criticism, the eyes come first; all the cultural infrastructuring that places an object within its historical context can come later. Fortunately for Henry Kraus, 61, a Knoxville, Tenn., barber's son who studied mathematics in college and made a career out of medical journalism, he first fell in love with medieval cathedrals by feasting his eyes on them while a student at the Sorbonne. Before he ever cracked a book about it, Gothic art had become a secret passion. Now, with time to pursue it, he has written a revolutionary study, rediscovering scores of facts about medieval iconography...
Having said all this, I would want to add that the object of struggle against this terrible war is elsewhere than Harvard. To focus obsessively, as some have shown signs of doing, on this community and its local problems is a solipsistic and fundamentally irrelevant diversion from the political arena, where even now one may yet strike blows for peace. Martin Peretz Instructor in Social Studies