Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above them on one wall hangs a clock with a red sweep second hand. It is the most looked-at object in the room, the beginning and end of an eye-sweep pattern that pans your feet, the head of your line, the head of the line next to yours and damp new arrivals. The clock is the silent monitor of how long it is taking everybody to do one basic thing: to move from the rear of a 150-ft. line to the front, then out of the building or to still another line. There is no "average" time...
...Senate, Jackson was soon enlisted in the Democratic campaign to bring down Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and end his witchhunt for subversives in Government. Among other things, Jackson asked a series of ironic questions during the Army-McCarthy hearings that helped reduce the Wisconsin Senator to an object of ridicule. The strain of those hearings led to an attack of fibromyositis, an extremely painful, body-wide muscular cramp that Jackson likens to "a giant charley horse." To avoid future attacks, he still exercises daily for 45 minutes, usually in the Senate gym, where he swims a quarter...
...These guys are feathering their own nests, and it's clear their proposed new policy is an attempt to keep people off the board who might object," Marvin said...
Brian Petrovek, the undeserving object of some criticism after Monday night's Beanpot fiasco, will probably be in the nets for Harvard once again tonight. In the 7-2 loss to B.U., Petrovek watched his usually dependable defense crumble before the Terrier onslaught, and was forced to make a record 55 saves...
...consciousness, becomes artificially lofty and burdensome. One chapter, a transcript of Enderby's appearance on the late-night Sperr Lansing Show, is a failed satire of the transcriber's inadequacy, with misspellings like ecommunionicle, kwelled, teetotal Aryan, and Alice in Windowland. And the final chapter, some sort of object-lesson conducted from the future by Educational Time Trips Inc. to teach children about the poet Enderby and about the beauty and squalor of New York and how it represents the human condition, is not only self-serving (it implies Burgess/Enderby will endure the test of time), but too obvious...