Word: objection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publication clause" is only "designed to ensure that no classified material is revealed?" Professor Joseph Nye recently reported (Boston Globe, Nov. 24, 1985) that the scope of the clause can be much broader. (Moreover, given Professor Herf's phobia of unopen sources, how come he doesn't object to the mere use of classified materials?) Would Professor Herf think it is all right, say, for a scholar to give to the family of a deceased public official or writer the right to censor a biography it has helped fund...
State Department officials have argued that his talk would harm U.S. foreign policy by giving the appearance that the U.S. does not object to the PLO policies...
...Maldistribution? The project certainly has that object in mind," says Wilson, the Project's Summer Director...
...huddled not quite in the center of the table. These slight departures from absolute regularity give the centered, single image a murmur, no more, of instability. The scheme is one of the most widely known in Spanish painting: the tradition of the bodegon, or kitchen still life, the isolated object against a plain field, brought to its fullest intensity by Zurbaran and Sanchez Cotan in the early 17th century. Echoes of the bodegones continued in Spanish art for hundreds of years; they could still be seen in Picasso's cubist still lifes. But Lopez's skinned rabbit goes straight back...
...death is its own and no one else's; and its minutely observant reconstruction under the brush, each nuance of its shrunken flesh reconstituted by a mark, fleck or scribble of paint that carries its wiry vitality as a sign, gives the inspection of this still and single object the power of narrative...