Word: objection
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Wise Men & Gifts. Long before the date of Christmas was fixed in the calendar (by Pope Julius I in the middle of the 4th century), the cave or stable in Bethlehem had been an object of veneration. St. Justin Martyr mentioned the present Grotto of the Nativity as early as 155; a century later, Origen discussed the authenticity of the site (even Christianity's enemies, he said, admitted it). The manger scene-with the Wise Men from Matthew and the shepherds from Luke-is one of the oldest Christian traditions. It is also the easiest to dramatize. Canticles...
...school library, Dana was in business. Since, he has given $200,000 to Georgia's Berry College toward a new dormitory, $150,000 to North Carolina's Guilford College for its extension school, $350,000 to Connecticut's University of Bridgeport toward a science building. His object is to meet each school's crying need-halfway...
Cuban Sculptor Joseph Dubronyi, who has hewn enough nudes to people a colony, was about to sue the estate of "a good pal," the late Cinemactor Errol Flynn, for $5,000. The unpaid-for art object: a goldplated, 18-in. reclining figure of Flynn's last protégée, lithe Nymphet Beverly ("Woodsie") Aadland, 17, in the breathtaking altogether...
...pressurized spherical gondola that dangled beneath it like an afterthought were two scientists-Commander Malcolm Ross, 40, a balloonist from the Office of Naval Research, and Physicist-Engineer Charles B. Moore Jr., 39, a balloon expert who works for Arthur D. Little Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. Their object: to get mankind's first good look at Venus clear of most of the earth's muffling atmosphere...
...difficulty in establishing a literary school is that someone is always cutting class. Novelist Nathalie Sarraute, dean of women of the French school known as the New Realist, inveighs against psychological novels, yet psychologizes in her own works. Her cofounder, Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, is an object worshiper who would rather describe a love seat than a love scene; yet this is not consistently reflected in the novels of his disciples. They do have some common characteristics, notably a way of writing in flat tones of a world that is bleak arid joyless, where people lead lives hollow of meaning...