Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...followed in the event of a faculty member's death. For some years, a black-bordered death notice was circulated to all University faculty informing them of the death of a colleague. That practice had been discontinued. President Bok recognized that some members of the Faculty might object to this decision, and he assured members that, although not sending out the cards would save a few thousand dollars, this economy should not prevail against strong sentiment in favor of continuing the practice. The President then went on to observe that in the past there had been certain deficiencies...
Philip's head remains the object of thoughtful, disinterested scrutiny, like Cezanne's apple, but much more mysterious. There are the signs of age and stress: an eyelid droops, the gaze is not quite focused. There is the vast dignity: no real head, seen in isolation, could possibly envelop itself in such distances as Velásquez's painted fiction...
...simple game, played with bead-like white and black "stones" on a chess-like board, the object being for each player to try to encircle and capture his opponent's stones...
...borders; within those borders, Israel occupies 80% of Palestine. What will Palestinians say to us if we accept a settlement that liberates only 20% of Palestine and does not let them return to their homes? Suppose they offered us 50% of Palestine? Would we accept? No! We object to the Israeli state. Nobody can convince me that Zionism is not racist. No Arabs can accept a racist state in Palestine that regards Arabs as second-class citizens...
...expert in sex therapy called the book "technically instructive"; another doctor, however, warned that the author's "circus-trick" love-making techniques could prove fatal to the weak of heart. The object of their testimony: a raunchy paperback autobiography by Porn Queen Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat. After deliberating for nearly five hours at London's Old Bailey courthouse, a jury of nine men and three women found the British publisher of the book, titled Inside Linda Lovelace, innocent of obscenity charges. Linda declared herself "ecstatic," but others were less pleased. Groused Labor M.P. Neil Kinnock, when...