Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this area of reliquaries one realizes most vividly how church practice, including art, has changed across the centuries. What were once objects of universal veneration are now, to most people, oddities. The less intrinsically dignified the relic, the truer this seems to be. One cannot re-experience the feelings with which a devout Roman borghese of the 17th century might have knelt before the reliquary of Mary Magdalene's foot in the church of Sts. Celsus and Julian. To him it would have been an object dense in its reality and hallowed in association: one of the actual feet...
...life, and the game of squash is a metaphor for that dissociation. No longer, in squash, does the actual hand impel the ball on its tortuous journey; instead, a foot and a half of laminated wood and the entrails of cats enforces a dainty separation between motive force and object...
...group, as Pound saw it, was "to portray the idea of motion itself." Kupka began trying to capture motion through the vibrancy of color; in "Newtonian Disks" (1912) the pure tones, reds, blues, yellows, are liberated from form. They no longer express the form of an object, but establish their own rhythm, make their own music...
This list, of course, is not exhaustive. In addition, many may object that the best winter sport of all is noticeably absent. Sources tell me, however, that some kind of partner is usually needed for this one, so I had to leave it out. Stay warm, stay healthy...
...writing to publicly object to House displays of Christmas trees and Christmas decorations. I live in Winthrop House, where we have a Christmas tree and a "Have a Joyous Christmas" sign in the dining hall. I find such decorations offensive and discriminatory...