Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...college," which often turns out to be Stanford. Though they take communal meals and share a withering scorn for "obvious suburbanites," these principled individuals are only quietly radical. "Arcosanti is based on solid middle-class values," says Scott Riley, 27, a former "small college" student. "We don't object to sitting around Sundays reading the New York Times, but we refuse to get caught up in working umpteen hours to pay for a nice car to go to the store to buy that paper." Presumably, in the best of all possible cities, the paper will be delivered...
However small and skeptical, the black vote also could be a key factor in the coming election, and it was the object of ardent wooing last week by all four candidates. The courtship occurred most directly in the regal grand ballroom of the New York Hilton, site of the annual convention of the National Urban League, which for 70 years has helped blacks to get jobs, housing and education...
...enjoy a romp through the snow in front of Emerson Hall. At the very least, you will come close to being killed by a maniacal Boston driver a few times in your college career. It's a good thing Erich Segal teaches at Yale; he's just one more object for derision...
...well over a decade, the Dazhai production brigade in China's Shanxi province was the object of nothing less than a cult. The small, 40-family work unit, whose herculean labors were said to have produced astounding grain yields on steep hills, was held up as a model for all of rural China. LEARN FROM DAZHAI was the slogan that covered walls and farm buildings from northeastern Heilongjiang province to Yunnan in the southwest...
While the western look has cantered around for years, its popularity beyond the prairie is a fairly recent phenomenon. As for the redskin connection, it came not from Sioux or Blackfoot country or even from Seventh Avenue but, curiously, from France, where le peau rouge has always been an object of romantic fascination and, lately, of fashionable imitation. French visitors are among the most avid customers at the growing number of U.S. stores that specialize in such Indian artifacts as beads, bandannas, belts, jewelry and even earrings of mallard, quail and pheasant feathers (available at Manhattan's Tepee Town...