Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston, and Hayden Gallery at MIT, focuses on six themes the Swedish-born sculptor has developed over the last ten years: "Geometric Mouse", "Three-way Plug", "Clothespin", "Fagends", "Typewriter Eraser", and "Standing Mitt with Ball". In each case, Oldenburg considers a commonplace object, analyzes it in terms of texture, volume, form, etc., then manipulates the essence he has extracted. Using a process of free association, he fuses images, correlating aspects of the original object to other things or concepts. For example, a mitt, which he purchased in a Kresges dime store for 96 cents suggests...
...struck together--sparks fly. The typewriter eraser, for example, becomes a tornado in one series of drawings. The round rubber spins violently around the center screw (the eye of the tornado) and the trailing brush sweeps all before it, leaving a dust cloud in its wake. The seemingly innocuous object reveals itself as a force of destruction...
...left the museum early Saturday morning feeling angry and frustated. I do not object to the Lampoon spending tens of thousands of dollars in celebrating their centennial year. It is their money to spend as they wish. A museum, however, hardly seems the place to hold such a party. I am disillusioned with the curators of the Busch-Reisinger who displayed such poor judgment in authorizing this spectacle...
...object strenuously to your article "Getting Out of Exams is Easier Than You Think". The article undermines the necessary trust between students and physicians at U.H.S. It is important that the students' complaints of ill health be honored. Since a medical excuse is not equivalent to exemption from an exam, the student is not "getting out" of anything by obtaining the medical excuse, contrary to the implication of your headline...
...deny that the increase of medical excuses is of interest to the Harvard community. We do object to the manner in which the information was obtained and presented. We hope that the sloppy, irresponsible journalism evidenced by this issue will not be repeated. Susie Goldman Lynsie Shea Claire Smith