Word: objectional
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...even includes a pile of handouts in front of his piece that could be the next problem set for “Reality Physics.” Perplexed visitors are asked to match his paintings with titles such as “c) Freely falling object,” or “f) Object(s) in equilibrium via normal force and tension of the string...
...notion of free expression—but somehow I don’t think that’s what the poster is referring to.All these events, altogether typical and expected in a Harvard context, bespeak an ironic myopia with America. Ironic, because the more important and less understood object of study is not American extremism but Islamic extremism, and because we live in a post-colonial age when independence has supposedly brought free agency to historical actors around the world. Yet, you wouldn’t know that from your usual Harvard posterboard, which echoes the wonks of the academic...
...National Rifle Association may have met an immovable object in Florida: Big Business. The Florida Chamber of Commerce is fighting an N.R.A.-backed bill that guarantees the right to take guns to work (or at least to the office parking lot; guns would have to be kept locked up in a car). The bill would hit uncooperative employers with felony charges. "This time they crossed the line," says the Florida Chamber's Mark Wilson of aggressive N.R.A. lobbyists. With a similar Oklahoma bill stalled in the courts, Florida G.O.P. lawmakers are torn between two of their best friends. Take...
...though in different guises and circumstances. The sequences weave in an out of each other like a dream as in each one Thomas searches desperately for a panacea that will save his endangered beloved and allow them to be together forever. The central symbol of the book, and the object of Thomas' quests, is a magical Tree of Life. (The title's erroneous reference to the Fountain of Youth, which does not appear in the book, remains unexplained...
...busy River Po. It blossomed during the 11th century rise of the House of Savoy, one of Europe's oldest royal bloodlines: today in the Palazzo Reale visitors can view a snapshot of how one lived like a King two centuries ago. In the 16th century, Torino became an object of pilgrimage when the Holy Shroud, the white sheet that many Catholic faithful believe wrapped Jesus after his crucifixion, fetched up in the Duomo di San Giovanni Battista. The city was reborn as the first capital of a united Italy in 1861 - though the capital soon shifted to Rome. During...