Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick to qualify that idealism: "I'm much more skeptical," he adds dryly, "than when I started out." In fact, it was his well-developed skepticism that prompted Griffith to write his 1974 book How True (subtitle: A Skeptic's Guide to Believing the News). Its object: to provide readers with an inside view of print and broadcast journalism in order to help them evaluate the news. "It is absolutely necessary to be a skeptical reader," argues Griffith. "The more that boundaries are blurred between straight reporting, editorials and impressionistic reporting, the more the reader needs to judge...
Francis M. Pipkin, chairman of the Faculty's Ad Hoc Committee on Honors, said yesterday several members of the council object to the new requirements because they equate pass-fail and failing grades. Others object to the fact that students can get D's in half their non-concentration courses outside and still graduate with honors, he said...
After the war, the object was not to control the river but to span it. There had been bridges before, most notably the Great Bridge of 1649. It had been a heroic effort for the small community of Cambridge. Heroic and exhausted, for when it began to crumble soon after, the townspeople were willing to spend neither the time nor the money to restore it Eventually the bridge fell into the river and the commuting public returned to Mr. Cooke's penny ferry. After Mr. Cooke, Harvard College ran the ferry, the same boat to Charlestown that Paul Revere used...
...dealing with the past 25 years, provokes real unease. Here a mixture of uncertain taste and polemical narrowness has given a shaky and partisan reading to history. One curator in particular, Marcia Tucker, seems flatly prejudiced against the very idea of sculpture as a solid, weighty or highly modulated object. Her selections seem meant to prove that in the past decade sculpture has advanced historically by denying its own material essence. Moreover, "with a few exceptions," she declares, "present-day sculpture has generally rejected anthropomorphic, transcendental, nostalgic and metaphysical content." If sculptors do not conform to these norms...
...even if security is not violated, does not the Government have a right to secrecy, and to private discussion? Indeed it does, as well as the responsibility to keep it private. No one can object if an Administration, by discipline and discretion, saves itself from too many unseemly disclosures. In the poisoned atmosphere of Viet Nam and Watergate, men who leaked were denounced as traitors or hailed as heroes, but in most instances were neither. A leak by a man of conscience, upset by wrongdoing and willing to take the consequences, deserves honoring. But most leaks serve the self-interest...