Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts, which has itsmajor campus at Amherst, 91 miles west of Boston, a medical school in Worcester and a total enrollment of nearly 30,000 students. Indeed, as long as there were students and money enough to go round, the powerful and influential private universities in Massachusetts did not object to seeing their public step sister flourish with state funding. Now,faced with a dwindling supply of students and costs that have pushed their tuition charges alone to $3,000 and more, the "privates" can no longer watch with equanimity as the "publics" siphon off students at a mere...
Role Reversals. Other men object to the sheer drudgery of housework. "I can't stand cleaning," admits Author Robert Kimmel Smith, 42, who writes in his Brooklyn, N.Y., home and cares for his children while his wife Claire works full time as a literary agent. Schacter enlivens his vacuuming chores by plugging in a set of stereo headphones. Cincinnati Househusband Ken Onaitis, 26, slaves over a hot stove and grew angry at first when his wife arrived home late for dinner. Says he: "Well, you work two hours over something...
...apparent, since the Ivy wrestling season spans only seven league contests, that Harvard again will not emerge as one of the contenders for the crown. However, judging from last years 1-5 showing, the object is not to win the title, but to rebuild...
These critics object to the vagueness of Curran's definition of "special offenders"--he says they're inmates who "exhibit signs of serious mental disturbance" or "repeated aggressive behavior," who are "incorrigible," "disruptive," and "dangerous." Matthew Dumont, the assistant commissioner, predicts that in practice "special offenders" would mean political activists, and there's nothing in Curran's plan to prove him wrong. The critics also object to what they consider Curran's recommendation of drug therapy and behavior modification programs to control troublesome prisoners. Curran says he didn't recommend these programs at all, but his report summary says...
...would agree that it is indeed a very special place. Some say the Yard is an architectural museum and should be kept as such; others, though by far the minority, are willing to tolerate a certain amount of experimentation. However the critical issue is not the Yard as object, but rather the Yard as place. To proclaim all buildings sacrosanct simply because they have been built there is nostalgia rather than architectural evaluation; on the other hand, architectural and environmental experimentation would transform the Yard's character completely...