Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though college students stand to gain most from the Welsh decision, many students will not be all that happy. Reason: the ruling does not exempt those who object to the Viet Nam War specifically and not to wars in general. This seemingly illogical notion is, in fact, the point of another C.O. appeal before the Supreme Court, which was argued the same day as Welsh. That case involves John H. Sisson Jr., a recent Harvard graduate who refused induction on the ground, among others, that Congress cannot constitutionally force a man to fight in a war to which...
...recent years, it seemed as if artists had broached all possible frontiers. They extended the plane surface of the canvas, took sculpture off its pedestal, used machines, made everything bigger and bigger. However large or awkward the object, museums and galleries managed to accommodate...
...some artists, all this permissiveness seemed the reverse of a challenge. They declared that they found the wall, the floor, the room, the very idea of making an object, confining. So they have struck out for wilder shores of the imagination, for deserts and plains, mountaintops and ocean floors, claiming all nature as their canvas and every living thing-from molds and yeasts to cows and their own bodies-as their material...
Present stockholders might logically object that issuance of so many new shares to finance plant expansion would dilute their equity in corporations. Kelso notes, however, that stockholders' proportional share in the old assets of a company would remain the same; only the new wealth created by expansion would be spread widely among the new shareholders. To be sure, if Kelso's plan were widely adopted, the stock market might lose its lure as a casino. Reason: investors would have much less incentive to gamble on rising stock prices and much more inducement to invest for steady income. Kelso...
...Updike's Bech stories from The New Yorker have been federated between hard covers, it is easier to see them for what they are: the funniest, most elegantly written and intelligently sympathetic renditions available about what happens when a writer stops being a writer and becomes a culture object...