Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fully understand a subject, "you must see the object, the book,itself," insists Bond. "Some things you can only learn from the actual object that cannot be conveyed by printed descriptions orphotographs." Of the elusive Hollis gifts, many of which are on displayin Houghton's main lobby, Bond adds: "I keep pulling them out ofWidener stack all the time: they are specially bound, and at this point I can sight a Hollis at 50 paces...
...object to the letter from Filippo Bosco in which he implies that a number of national groups in the U.S. do not support the British. As a black from Jamaica, I had considerable contact with the British in my early days. I thank them for a better education than I would have received in this country. They were fair, decent and just...
...first rough cutting of the logs to the final caress of the sandpaper. "There are a thousand intricacies and a thousand decisions," he says. "An old tree is unpredictable. It is a stirring moment when out of an inert mass drawn from nature, we set out to produce an object never before seen, an object that is useful, but with a lyric quality...
Nuclear-freeze advocates are calling it the "Big One." This Saturday an estimated 500,000 people from across the country are expected to converge in New York City for the biggest rally ever held in the U.S. against nuclear arms. The object of the rally: "a freeze and reduction of all nuclear weapons and the transfer of funds from military budgets to human needs." The giant gathering, timed to coincide with the opening of the United Nations second special session on disarmament, which runs from June 7 to July 9, is the centerpiece of a week-long series of concerts...
Some professors at the Ed School object to the idea of returning control of these monies to the states because, as one professor notes, the states have "not provided much enthusiasm for helping the disadvantaged." Another insisted that the "states will find other priorities...