Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began quibbling over how to word the Palestinian issue on the agenda, Vance briefly delayed his trip to Jerusalem as a signal to the Israelis and the Egyptians that they had to work harder on a compromise. The agenda problem was settled when the Israelis agreed to define the subject, as the U.S. had suggested, in strictly geographical terms?namely, the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The following evening, however, Begin warned 15 visiting American Congressmen that Israel had no intention of giving up its settlements in the Sinai; the Congressmen were surprised by both...
...acreage restriction could lead to the creation of thousands of new farms and help destroy the two-class system of agriculture prevalent in many parts of the west. On farms of 14,000 acres hundreds of people who could own their own land serve instead as employees subject to the whim of a landowner who has the power to decide who works and for how much. The men, women and children who work in the fields and groves of the west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges...
...Italy share profound democratic values and interests, and we do not believe that the Communists share those values and interests." That kind of language, while several decibels below the threatening warnings of Henry Kissinger, nonetheless marked a new high point of concern by the Carter Administration on the subject of Eurocommunism...
...subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
...Paris. In the 19th century, philanthropy suppressed that, and shame closed the asylums to view, so that insanity was not only confined but also hidden. Our own culture, despite its vast interest in neurosis, has not been able to forgive its madmen their lunacy. Thus the last taboo subject for photography is not sex, probably not even death, but madness. The act of photographing a mad person seems to return to the voyeurism of Bedlam-insanity as entertainment...