Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past ten years has silenced many Leftists or put them on the defensive about the way they embraced the idea that America's course in the war was uniquely evil. Some, like Singer Joan Baez, denounced the behavior of the new Vietnamese regime. Jane Fonda is an object of special vilification among veterans. Her husband, California Assemblyman Tom Hayden, once a leader of the New Left, admits, "I am not pure. We have, as Joseph Heller says, two lives: the one we live with and the one we learn with. The consensus on the war is still emerging...
...pressure this time seems to be coming from the business community. K. Patricia Cross, a senior lecturer on education, points to "a kind of Renaissance in business" in which creative, entrepreneurial employees have become the object of corporate desire, favored over mass-produced, formula-spouting "yes men." Cross cites Steven Jobs, the founder of Apple Computers, as the prototype of the new ideal employee, and the kind of person that college faculties are failing to cultivate...
When citizens take it upon themselves to fight crime, they run the risk of treading on the civil liberties of others or using unnecessary force. Indeed, most law-enforcement authorities object when individuals or neighborhood-watch groups, such as one in Sun City, Ariz., carry pistols. Handguns in untrained hands are a clear menace. Last year, for example, a homeowner in El Cajon, Calif., shot a 13-year-old boy who set off an alarm in the man's storage shed. In San Diego, an 87-year-old man fired at a policeman investigating a fire next door. Both...
...doughty admirer indeed: zealous, dogged, properly crazed. His particular madeleine, his key to the past, is a stuffed green parrot he discovers in a Flaubert museum in Rouen. The author borrowed a stuffed bird while he was writing A Simple Heart, in which a parrot is the last object of a gentle old woman's affection. Looking into its beady eye, Braithwaite suddenly feels close to his own idol. But, he ruminates, "the writer's voice--what makes you think it can be located that easily?" Sure enough, in Croisset, the village where Flaubert lived, there is another collection...
...diverge greatly on this. Truman Capote, a perennial favorite, has recently been exonerated by the fact of his death If it is him, then he's calling from a long way away. A number of faculty members, including a sizeable portion of the English Department, have also been the object of suspicion. Suspicions also reflect the biases of the student body, since Ronald Reagan is accused at least twice as often as Walter Mondale, and three times more than Konstantin Chernenko, especially...