Word: objectivity
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...Authorities don't object to the world-is-my-classroom approach. So long as parents appear to be committed to their child's education, getting registered as a home educator is usually a formality. "The few who are knocked back," says Colleen Strange, Sydney-based founder of the Home Education Association, "haven't the slightest idea what they're doing." Registration comes up for renewal every year or two - when, in most parts of Australia, a bureaucrat will pay a visit to check that the child is making progress. It may be interesting to ponder how much you've retained...
...audience. “The festival is a magnet for aficionados and practitioners alike,” says Levin.At the end of the day, the goal of early music is not scholarly but aesthetic. Rodin says: “We don’t want to create a fossilized object. Our major concern is to make the music engaging to the audience.” Friedman articulates similar sentiments: “[Early music] is not really about what the composer wanted so much as exploring what they might have heard, and what it might have sounded like...
Lucas has tried for years to be the irresistible force to the exhibitors' immovable object. In 2002, when he released Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, he opened it on 63 digital screens in North America, along with the thousands of screens showing the film version, and declared that in three years, when Revenge of the Sith came out, it would play only digitally. He says he even offered the exhibitors a financial incentive: "It costs about $1,200 for a film print and about $200 for a digital print. So what you do is charge the distributor...
...does the residents’ perception that their potential neighbors object to the construction of 310 units of low-income housing for the Charlesview residents make the move more palatable, Rojas said. Rojas referred to a meeting last Thursday at which neighbors of the new site sharply questioned Harvard officials about the ramifications of the move...
...Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies M. Shahab Ahmed jokes, “If one is to object to anything it should be that he runs Disneyland Paris...