Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrolls, are "swift and men of valor in battle." go "over smooth ground" and "trample the earth with their horses and with their animals; and from afar they come, from the coasts of the sea." They "sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are the object of their worship." Exponents of the theory that the Kittim are the Syrians see the "smooth ground" as meaning alternately a plain, a level road, the plateau east of the Dead Sea-or merely that they were unopposed. They identify the "animals" with which they trample the earth as the war elephants...
...Philosophers need not deny the existence of an inner stream of consciousness," Stace continued. "Consciousness is not purely a bodily movement," and inner mental experience is as valid as sensual experience as an object of philosophical analysis, he said...
Dada, the yeasty nihilistic movement of post-World War I days, seemed tired and tattered, its once-youthful stars well past middle age. Even the exhibits had lost most of their punch-Man Ray's ticking metronome with a staring eye impaled on the blade, entitled Object to Destroy; Marcel Duchamp's bearded and mustachioed version of the Mona Lisa; a mirror into which visitors peered until they saw the title, Portrait of an Imbecile...
...excitement of the '20s erupted. Storming the gallery, a band of young, self-styled "reactionary nihilist intellectuals" who call themselves the Jarivistes flung handbills riotously into the gallery. "We Jarivistes advise the Dadaists, surrealists and consorts that the reign of minus is over . . . Long live poetry!" Then, grabbing Object to Destroy, they were gone-but with Dadaist Man Ray puffing after them, crying: "They're stealing my painting!" Not far from the gallery, the Jarivistes stopped and set down the one-eyed metronome. One of them hauled out a pistol, took aim and fired, destroying Object to Destroy...
...tongue higher - against the alveolar ridge just behind the base of the upper front teeth - to make the same sounds. And that is precisely where the average dentist making an upper plate puts part of the denture base. Result: the English-language patient's tongue hits a foreign object right behind the alveolar ridge and doesn't know what to make of it. This causes especially severe trouble when the base is too thick...