Word: objecting
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...intellectual armature of the poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present-is active-in the space that surrounds the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a meaningful silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves." And again: "To conjure up . . . the negated object, with the help of allusive and indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary silence . . . comes close to the act of creation...
...Lipset's survey prejudices many questions to the point where respondents may reasonably object to dealing with the issues on the surveyor's terms," Lang said yesterday...
Chomsky added that the object of the CIAFI meeting was not to advocate violent revolution in America against the Shah, but to inform Americans about the situation in Iran and to put pressure on the U.S. government to end American financial and military assistance to Iran...
...subtler was Gail Casson's disquieting solo, "Marooned." A crumpled piece of cloth served in turn as the dancer's nursed and dandled baby, as an alien object enkindling fear, as the skirt in which she danced with measured delicacy or frenzied abandon, and finally as a pair of wings launching her into solipsistic flight. Through an accumulation of flawlessly-timed, needle-sharp details, Casson awakened issues of astonishing complexity: identity and mask, fantasy and madness, reality and imagination, or--as when she held the bunched skirt to her breast, moving her own mouth in the fishlike gulps...
Administrators object to an advertisement in The Heights for the New England Women's Service, a women's agency which gives advice on pregnancy, birth control and abortion, McPartland said. The ad has been running in the paper since September...