Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present position of the English-speaking universities is precarious. They are among the very few centers of rational thought left in a frightened country, and as such are the object of frequent attacks by the government. The universities now are sad and depressed communities in which many persons are acutely aware of South Africa's approaching Gotterdammerung. Many top faculty members have emigrated; many high calibre students go overseas for graduate study and never return...
...F.A.L.N. raid on an excursion train carrying picnickers to a park 25 miles from Caracas. Hearing rumors that the F.A.L.N. might dynamite the tracks, the army put eight soldiers from its elite National Guard aboard the train. But there was no dynamite; simple killing was the F.A.L.N.'s object. With the December elections so near, it is going to any lengths to undermine Betancourt's government. As the ten-car train approached a tunnel, some 30 young terrorists aboard drew guns and went about their bloody business...
...whose revelers, it seemed to him, lost their sense of identity behind their garish masks. Without straying far from his family's souvenir shop, Ensor detailed the seven deadly sins in modern dress, and added a few of his own observation. He often showed Christ not as an object of adoration but as an unmasked redeemer swamped in a sea of masquerade...
...against avant-garde design in itself. Rather, I object to architecture that tries to cloak its sleaziness under something called "functional honesty." Architectural critics will tell me that Holyoke Center has nothing artificial about it, that it does not try to hide its functional aspects (like the unsightly utility core, which, God knows, ought to be hidden). "Functional honesty" seems to me a marvelously clever way of passing off cheapness and embarrassing people into acceptance of unfinished concrete exteriors. Hans Christian Andersen's emperor, after all, was dressed in a most functionally honest...
Scoring is vaguely similar to football. A try, worth three points, corresponds essentially to the touchdown, and consists in touching the ball down across the opponent's goal line. However, the object is to score a try as near to the center of the goal posts as possible since, after a try, the player must attempt to convert (for two points) by kicking the ball between the goal posts and over the crossbar from a point directly in front of the spot where he touched it down...