Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to the implication that "environmentalist" means "non-hunter." To hunt and to be concerned about the environment are not mutually exclusive. Theodore Roosevelt, an avid sportsman, was one of the driving forces behind the conservation movement...
...puzzled that you should question whether the U.S. Government will accept "a onetime terrorist" as ambassador from Nicaragua. The Reagan Administration employs terrorists who regularly cross from Honduras to Nicaragua to try their hand at terrorism. Why should we object to having a former practitioner of the art as Nicaragua's ambassador...
...delicate handling, however, the campaign is sputtering. Much of China's leadership remains an immovable object of orthodoxy. The staunchest Maoist loyalists are within the 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army, whose upper ranks have become a stagnant gerontocracy. The youngest of the nine men on the Central Military Commission is 70; three of its four vice chairmen, like Chairman Deng, have passed their 80th birthday. Even the People's Daily has been moved to complain that "some of our leading cadres are like document-reading machines, speaking rather than acting and just sitting there unless they...
...suppose the plaque poses a challenge to get it down from its high position, nevertheless it is a senseless act of vandalism on an aesthetically valued object," said Aida K. Press, Director of Public Information at Radcliffe...
Tension between a spiritual core and a realistic texture produces a certain wobbliness in The Paper Men, an instability most evident in Golding's treatment of Tucker. The object of rather savage satire at the beginning. Tucker at one point surprises everyone by coming forward to say "I know how I must seem to you, sir Just another sincere but limited academic." Then, as relations between the two men deteriorate further, Tucker is reduced to a caricature again. Golding's spiritual concern over Tucker as a human being wars with the literary problem of how to depict him. This tension...