Word: objectivity
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...Sackler Museum—a twenty-first century audio guide geared towards the student body. The project, funded by a grant from the Office of the Arts, is intended to encourage student visitorship at the Sackler.Students who volunteered to contribute to the podcast were asked to choose an object in the museum and reflect on what makes it most interesting to them. They were then to summarize their interaction with and thoughts on the object in a two- to four-minute segment. “The podcast is not meant to be an authoritative art historical review of the Sackler...
...tool for singling out great design. In this special supplement to TIME, we endeavor to identify what we call the Design 100, the people and ideas behind today's most influential design. Or, more specifically, the designers and impresarios who are creating useful and beautiful products, furniture, objects, buildings, houses, fabrics, even kitchen utensils. Of course, it's never easy to whittle down a list when there is so much talent in the global market. It's a matter of differentiating between good and great design. Morris had it right: great design is that magical confluence of beauty and function...
First and foremost, we object to the means by which the Committee wishes to hold student group leaders accountable. The report suggests that leaders of student groups, official or not, should be held responsible for the health and safety of its partygoers. In other words, if a student drinks too much at your party, you could be blamed and punished by the Administrative Board. Aside from the impracticality of such a measure—in any given night, a Harvard partygoer is likely to have made appearances at several soirees, and therefore, identifying exactly which party did him in would...
...many gorgeous parts. Perhaps this is why Spain’s El País called this “the kind of novel Borges would have written.”The novel ambles along, and each character’s story slowly unfolds as though time were no object. But, as in real life, you look at the date and without you even noticing it, 20 years have passed. It’s a somber realization that casts its shadow over the entire book, as the visceral realists and their companions wander the globe, searching for something they?...
...talk ... You're brave now, motherf___er. Throw his ass out. He's a nigger." MICHAEL RICHARDS, comedian, to a heckler AFTERMATH: Cell-phone video of the tirade was posted on TMZ.com and Richards apologized but became the object of many protests and jokes. OUTRAGE FACTOR...