Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...eerie feeling of dipping into a version of Proust's Swann's Way written from the point of view of the object of Swann's fixation. Farrell in no way resembles the fictional Odette, but she tries to distance herself from suffocating attention, tries to limit passion to the stage and embrace practicality off it. Balanchine's attentions were consuming. He designed little furs for her and bought her shoes because "I just love to hear you clip-clopping along." After she broke the spell, she danced old roles and new ones, finally watching Mr. B.'s slow decline...
...object of gene therapy, simply put, is to provide the body with healthy replacement genes that can fulfill the intended role of defective ones. "Gene therapy is actually a sophisticated drug-delivery system," Anderson explains. "Anything given now by injection -- growth factor, factor VIII, insulin -- you can just engineer the patient's own cells to pump them out. The advantage is that it's a one-time treatment...
Many would object to me using as lofty and academic a term as classism to describe the slights I have received in my life. They would argue that greater tragedies have befallen humankind than some whiny prep school brat getting her feelings hurt, and they would most certainly be right. The upper class is definitely not a persecuted minority, and we do live in a society structured by class--a structure that admittedly has benefitted me. But discrimination on a personal or social level, be it against the political majority or minority, makes people flat agents for their particular group...
...coffers of Harvard's endowment, the obsession with financial considerations at the expense of ethics remains a serious problem. Harvard's growing stake in venture capital investments is not a problem by itself. We recognize that high yields on the endowment are good for all of us. We object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments, all without a trace of accountability to anyone...
...psychology of individual hate: "It has a lot in common with love, chiefly with that self-transcending aspect of love, the fixation on others, the dependence on them and in fact the delegation of a piece of one's own identity to them . . . The hater longs for the object of his hatred...