Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard to have the ball deep in its own territory is usually less desirable than for Harvard to have the opposition in the same straits. The object of the punt, therefore, is to force the opponent into a bad position on the field...
...classes, activities, or just around the Square. This means a student can actually be friends with a girl in something approaching a normal way; here one is not forced, as many college men are, to see every girl in terms of a weekend date or as a sex object. The availability of a quiet, private place is a necessary part of this kind of social life. The Houses provide such a place...
...Compiling an Indian language requires the teacher to be taught by his pupils. If he is lucky, a field worker will find at least one member of the tribe with a smattering of Spanish or Portuguese. The institute man then points to a hut, tree, rabbit, or other familiar object and asks the Indian the word for it. As he learns the Indian dialect, the linguist records the sounds on tape. Then, using basic phonetic symbols, he constructs an alphabet for the language. The process can be exasperating. One tribe of suspicious Bolivian Indians refused to cooperate, convinced that...
...ritual murder of Kerrigan will accomplish nothing. It will not bring the dead policeman back to life. It will not lower the rate of such crimes in the future. And it will not even serve as a powerful object lesson or a proper titillation for those with sadistic impulses, because it will be done quickly and secretively, like the shameful thing...
...object to the Governor's being invited here. My objection is not a disparagement of the right of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats to invite him, but such an invitation demonstrates an insensitiveness to the feelings of Negroes not only in Birmingham but throughout the country...