Word: objections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supersonic aircraft, which are efficient in both aerial dogfights and attacking ground targets. An additional 1,299 of the proven planes, built in Fort Worth by General Dynamics, have been bought by 14 nations. So when the Air Force got set to buy 270 more Falcons, who could object...
Pallman and five other members of the CambridgePlant and Garden Society protested thereconstruction, saying that "to take an objectthat is real and to put it on a pedestal is totake the reality of an object out of its contextand to make it an artifact. That alone takes awaythe quality of the object." Pallman asked: "Isthat really how Radcliffe wants its gift toHarvard to be remembered...
...parents object on religious grounds to books used in public schools, then their children are not required to read them. That is the implication of last week's verdict in a Tennessee trial, where Federal District Judge Thomas Hull, who heard the case without a jury, ruled in favor of parents who charged that the local school district forced their children to read textbooks that offended their strict Christian beliefs...
Such questions are intensified by the diversity of "Poetry of the Physical." "What is American about this show," says Smith, "is that there is no identifiable national style." Once craft was considered a handmaiden of art. Artisans made useful or decorative objects to enhance daily life. For American pioneers, making tools and furnishings was a necessity. But the 20th century widened horizons by elevating the craftsman's role. The Bauhaus influence in America allowed the artisan to become a partner of the architect. Later, the abstract expressionist movement in painting and sculpture, with its emphasis on individual statement, swept through...
...quantum theory says that a few electrons will jump anyway. Indeed they do, and since the number that jump depends on the size of the gap, the microscope's circuitry can continuously readjust the needle's height by monitoring the amount of current flowing between its tip and the object. The device "is completely new," said the Swedish Academy, "and we have so far only seen the beginning of its development...