Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hostages to Power. To such arguments, the Administration replies that its object is not to bomb North Viet Nam back "to the Stone Age," as retired Air Force General Curtis Le-May once proposed. "There is no doubt that air power could destroy North Viet Nam if it were in our interests," said Brown. "Our Government does not believe that it would be." The U.S. has purposely avoided attacking certain targets because they are too close to urban residential areas, would cause suffering among the civilian population or would not significantly affect the enemy's short-term ability...
...safeguard against political demagoguery. Modern monarchy often seems to reduce the tensions to which democracy is prone. According to Sociologists Edward Shils and Michael Young in the Sociological Review, it provides an effective segregation of love and hatred. "When the love is directed toward a genuinely love-worthy object, it reduces the intensity of the hatred as well. Just as the existence of a constitutional monarchy softens the acerbity in the relations between political parties, so it also lessens the antagonism of the governed toward the reigning government...
...Dallegret has designed a device that looks like a giant metal steeplechase hurdle, weighs half a ton, and is priced at $27,000. It consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams is brightly lit by hidden sodium-vapor lamps that shine on electric eyes staring up through pencil-sized holes in the bottom beam...
Backbreaking Gesture. The reliquary bust of St. Sigismund (see color page) demonstrates the multiple origins of Polish art. Given by Polish King Casimir the Great to the cathedral in Plock in 1370, the gilt object commemorates the martyred king of Burgundy, killed by the Franks during the 6th century, who became so popular that three kings of Poland took the name of Sigismund. The crown, studded with tourmalines, diamonds, pearls and sapphires, was commissioned in Venice nearly 150 years before the making of the bust, which was fashioned in Germany...
Until the 12th century, pictorial references to Jews were generally neutral and even approving. But from roughly A.D. 1100 to 1500, argues Blumenkranz, an Austrian Jew, Judaism was an object of hatred and scorn in Christian art. Mocking the Jews' refusal to eat pork, a sculptured capital from a church in Uppsala, Sweden, depicts Jews drinking at the udders of a sow. Although the Gospels explicitly accuse Roman soldiers of bringing about Jesus' death, some artists went out of their way to show Jews scourging...