Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Freedom is not the chief and continual object of their desires, it is equality for which [Americans] feel an eternal love, they rush on freedom with quick and sudden impulses, but if they miss their mark, they resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing will satisfy them without equality, and they would rather die than lose it." Tocqueville, Democracy in America...
...started, as many important things do in Washington, as cocktail-party chatter. At a museum reception in 1978, Representative Sidney Yates good-naturedly challenged Paul Perrot, an assistant secretary at the Smithsonian, to prove that he could produce every object listed in the records. Yates, an Illinois Democrat whose subcommittee oversees Smithsonian funding, was curious about how many items had been lost or stolen over the years...
...political clout, or the dignity, of people they show (dignity in hockey?). They are freer to rearrange reality. Roone Arledge invented prime-time Olympics-singling out anticipated stars to build up in advance, juggling tapes, and the clock to show the most dramatic events at peak hours. Purists may object that Arledge's rewed-up Olympics test like the sprawly Olympics of actuality, but the test is the same as for orange-juice concentrate: more people seem to prefer it to the real thing...
Student leaders expect a response to their proposal from the Faculty representatives by early next week and said that the haven committee's opinion will indicate whether professors object to guaranteed minority representation in principle or only in the complex way it was originally suggested...
With its rich history and secretive ways, the Hearst Corp. has long been an object of fascination for other journalists. But because the company is privately held and does not issue annual reports, Hearst watching is a little like Kremlinology: a close reading of signs and portents is required to figure who is up and who is down. Lately there has been a lot of figuring to do. Since December 1980, six editors of Hearst's largest newspapers have taken their heady talents elsewhere-though now it seems that some have left their bodies behind...