Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writing to register our strong protest against the recently proposed housing plan A, which would create freshman dormitories in the Radcliffe Quad. We object to the plan for the following reasons...
...object to the isolation of freshmen, both men and women, from upperclass men and women--that is, to the imposition of the Harvard freshman year pattern on Radcliffe, Mixing with upperclass men and women aids the freshmen in adapting to college life, both academically and socially. Isolation of freshmen with the same problems only exacerbates those problems...
...wrote an acerbic essay on mystery novels, his title - and his theme - was "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" The same skepticism might be directed toward a subspecies of the mystery genre known as the caper story, wherein a skilled handful of professionals try to steal a certain invaluable object from a certain impregnable fortress. The trouble with such yarns is that they tend to be about mechanics, not people. Unable to believe in the characters, who could care that the fuse won't light or the tumblers won't fall...
...palace -the Bloody Sunday that snapped the last thread of respect for the monarchy. In the last three months of the year, anger and discontent erupted in workers' strikes and military mutinies in Russia's major cities. After 50 days of what Trotsky called "ruthless object lessons," the czar and his Black Hundreds restored a kind of order to their shaky autocracy. Trotsky and other revolutionaries were tried and sentenced to Siberian exile...
...stroke of noon on April 22, 1889, some 50,000 settlers scrambled into the Oklahoma Territory in one of history's most famous land rushes. Today that phenomenon is being repeated. The object of the new American land rush is vacation and retirement property in nearly every part of the country. Developing planned recreational communities has become a billion-dollar business, and property that is often much less desirable than the Oklahoma Territory is being peddled as shamelessly as snake...