Word: objectionable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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To begin with, we challenge Peninsula's assertion that homosexuality is rare. In "De Scopulo," the author discredits A.C. Kinsey's 1948 finding that 10 percent of the American population is homosexual, claiming that those who participated in Kinsey's study were necessarily more open with their sexuality than the...
The OFA's second objection to Jerk is that humor does not qualify as art. Hogwash. Tell Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, two of history's best and most innovative humorists, that their works hold no artistic value.
Some critics are not so sure. While conceding that interactive multimedia may prove useful in helping students visualize abstract concepts in physics or math, many fear that the tools of multimedia will turn the traditional educational experience into something more akin to television. Author Steven Levy, writing in Macworld magazine...
Never mind the aesthetic objection that Sale makes these people sound ^ suspiciously like a bunch of New Agers vacationing in the Bahamas. Discount the fact that Sale does not mention evidence of the Tainos' hierarchic social structure, which included, at the bottom level, slaves.
According to Musawi, Baalbek's Islamic leaders have no objection to non- Muslims' visiting the ruins. "But we cannot accept drinking in public places, men walking with women or public displays of affection," he adds. Nor does Musawi welcome the Lebanese government's plans to resume Baalbek's summer festival...