Word: objectional
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...culture of the place encourages the verbal response to things over the visual. Now, museums are not here simply to respond to the interests of the History of Art and Architecture department. We are here to respond to and provoke the consideration of art as a distinct object. In the curriculum of the art history department it is in terms of history and the patterns of relationships over time; for the VES department it is in terms of the making of the thing. For museums, it is in terms of the thing made and seen on its own without...
...have always referred to the Harvard experience as a blender. It kind of slices you up and twirls you around, and the object of the game is to somehow put yourself back together. The woman who I have reassembled is much different than she once was. She feels no need to reinvent herself. More than anything else, my relationships at this school have made me more comfortable with myself and with the decisions I will have to make. And I owe much of this to my Harvard angels, all the people who have knowingly or unknowingly stepped into my memory...
...Lovett, a baker of unsavory meat pies, that the judge has raped his wife (leading her to poison herself) and taken their daughter Johanna as his ward. While Sweeney slaved “in a living hell,” Johanna has grown into a beautiful young woman, the object of affection of both the licentious judge and the young sailor, Anthony Hope, who aided Sweeney in making it back home to London...
...intimidated. What they have on their side is little more than rhetoric, though: They wish everyone would make a conscious effort to diversify. But there’s little evidence that that will happen in the near future: Those who defend self-segregation, though they may object to the term itself, offer a number of concrete reasons why students come together in ethnically separate groups. Such social behavior is understandable, they say; it’s beneficial and it’s so natural that even those who attack it are often guilty of self-segregating without realizing...
...pulled items from a cardboard box. "I can kill you with a magazine, a soda can, a compact disk, a wine bottle, and a fork," he told an audience of airline pilots. Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...