Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordered choice" solution suffers from essentially the same defect. The object of housing reform is to get students who otherwise would not live in certain houses to live there, and to get the students who otherwise would live in those houses to live somewhere else. Non-ordered choice fails to do that...
...think of time as a raging torrent, swollen with the trophies of war, disaster, luck and adventure. Pluck from the current some unidentified floating object. Pass it around. Put it on display. Argue about what it means. That's photojournalism. No one knows exactly when it was born, but it was in the instant some photographer pointed his lens at an event other people wanted to see. Since then, photojournalism has remained the best way of freeze-drying history for further inspection...
Still, a puritan conscience recoils a little from the sheer power of photographs. They have lingering about them the ghost of the golden calf -- the bright object too much admired, without God's abstract difficulties. Great photographs bring the mind alive. Photographs are magic things that traffic in mystery. They float on the surface, and they have a strange life in the depths of the mind. They bear watching...
...ability to remain optimistic would truly be commendable were optimism itself an object of value. About the stock market, our president said simply, "I'm not worried." Visiting California, Bush did let his emotions get the better of him when he said "Jesus" at the sight of Interstate 880. But he quickly recovered enough to sound presidential in expressing his "genuine appreciation for the way this community is pulling together...
Although the measure has become the object of intense effort by both sides of the abortion issue, there was little Senate discussion of abortion as it came to the floor...