Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countermeasures?that eventually led the U.S. to withdraw support from Diem, permitting his overthrow and murder. At the time, the West had great sympathy for South Viet Nam's Buddhists. Now the atmosphere is different. There is no longer even the shadow of a religious issue. Around the charred object that is still exhibited and venerated as Quang Duc's heart has grown up a militant, devious, determined movement whose aim is power...
...which, filled with water, makes a big and satisfying magnifying glass. The same company also devised a three-legged stool whose height is equal to the focal length of a giant lens in the middle of the seat, a triangular wood box with three peephole lenses for viewing an object's change in size, and a merry-go-round of mirrors that reflect other mirrors and spy around corners. A set of colored Plexiglas paddles demonstrates the effect of combining primary colors. A different sort of distinction is taught with perception plaques: twelve pairs of highly similar pictures...
...apres ski life is an object, better stick to the well known developments like Sugarbush, Mt. Snow, Killington and Cannon Mountain. But if you are concerned to maximize your skiing time and may be save a little money, take a chance on one of these low-key areas...
...pressed that he won't learn anything from doing them? Is there any sense in my staying up until 4 every night when I am so tired and sick of everything that I can't absorb what I am doing or learn by doing it? If the object of college is the cultivation of the intellect and the pursuit of knowledge, why can't I cultivate and pursue without the guilty thought of the report I should be writing? Why does the American system of college education spread so thin...
...alone could represent whatever was not Unity; whatever was irregular, exceptional, outlawed; and this was the whole human race." In contrast to the 12th century, the current times seemed increasingly bleak, and in The Education of Henry Adams, he argued that the dynamo had replaced the Virgin as an object of faith...