Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although cheap glasses may not fit well, and their flat lenses are not so easy on the eyes as more expensive, curved lenses, they nonetheless serve their purpose according to Dr. Peckham. Says he: "I have no objection to people buying $5 sunglasses, but I do object to their being told that 18? glasses will harm them...
Lina Sczepanowskae, (Jan Farrand), a beauteous Polish acrobat, assists the principals in defining their viewpoints, serving as the object of their individual amorous efforts. She spurns them all for her independence; the curtain falls and the audience is left to judge the elements of each philosophy for what it is worth. They are not all compatible, and the audience is left with the Shavian scurge, the unresolved paradox...
...Peronista colleagues in the provincial legislature. In Buenos Aires, Senator Saadi rose rapidly -to chairman of an important committee, then to floor leader of the Peronista majority. But one day he made a little mistake; during a closed session of the Senate he arose to object to the presence of "an outsider." The outsider happened...
Clutterbuck (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Irving L. Jacobs in association with David Merrick) is one of those "trifles light as air"-and very welcome in a theater where they are usually heavy as lead. Unlike most writers whose subject is sex and whose object is laughter, Playwright Levy (Springtime for Henry) possesses the gleaming eye of wit and the gloved hand of worldliness. Clutterbuck has the usual drawbacks of paper-thin comedy but it offers a good deal more than the usual rewards...
Where Hiss's first lawyer, Lloyd Stryker, had snarled and roared, Lawyer Cross closed almost impersonally with Chambers in crossexamination. His object, the same as Stryker's: to destroy the credibility of the Government's chief witness...