Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that Harvard has not changed the procedure for evaluating the work of a sexual harassment victim shows its lack of understanding of a basic issue. An instructor who treat's a student as a sexual object cannot judge that student's work impartially. In addition, the harassed student is working in a hostile environment, and the work produced will reflect the added strain. One wonders how many make-up exams are taken because strain in the classroom prevented the student from completing the required work on time...
...obsessed by redressing a grievance. The grievance may be against the drug company, doctors, Tylenol users or even some specific individual. Unlike the Son of Sam, who terrorized New York women in 1976 and 1977, he is not striking out against a particular type of victim, but an impersonal object or institution. According to Dr. Daniel Blazer, associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, he may be a "disgruntled employee" with a "deep sense of being wronged." Like Mad Bomber George Metesky, who nursed a grievance against his former employer, Consolidated Edison, for more than 20 years...
...above all, early burnout. All too often, as Updike once noted in a speech at an Australian arts festival, a writer uses up his youthful material and finds himself, though empty, still posed in his role. "It is then that he dies as a writer and becomes an intercultural object merely," said Updike, "or is born again, by resubmitting his ego, as it were, to fresh drafts of experience and refined operations of his mind." Updike seems to have put himself through a succession of such regenerations and, in the process, has not only sustained his professional standing but deepened...
...kind of automobile graveyard, but it contains far more than discarded tires, battered wheels and disemboweled body parts. He has constructed a collage of the detritus of contemporary civilization: smeared paper plates, unstrung tennis racquets, old Red Seal Victor records, Drambuie bottles and boxes of Tender Vittles. Every object is outsize, as a cat might...
...adversaries in each bout grape a single three-foot wooden budget, and the object is to wrestle the cane free from both hands of the opponent...