Word: objection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some written by his long-suffering wife June, of Levant in one or another sanitarium, of his bouts with drug addiction or liquor. From all this, Levant comes out as a man who might have been but just missed, who wallows in that unhappy fate by parading as an object of derision. The effect is painful, like a Levant joke: "Ralph Edwards had wanted me to be on his program This Is Your Life, but he couldn't find one friend...
...Kennedy's amazement, "Johnson showed every interest in the project." Schlesinger quotes Kennedy as telling a friend: "'I didn't offer the vice-presidency to him. I just held it out like this'-here he simulated taking an object out of his pocket and holding it close to his body-'and he grabbed at it.' " Jack dispatched Brother Bobby to the Johnson hotel suite. Bobby, writes Schlesinger, "said that he was there to report that an ugly floor fight was in prospect. If Senator Johnson did not want to subject himself to this kind...
...mechanized humans. He produced four one-man exhibits in Paris, illustrated more than 50 books, wrote two children's fables (Poor Shaydullah, Seven Simeons), designed ballet settings, women's clothes, murals, and a Parisian cathedral altar-all of which he created in the belief that "any object which is beautiful and useful" becomes...
...picture of the beheaded man was very gruesome and sickening-however, I cannot understand why people object to these factual photographs. Such pictures should be plastered across the front pages of every newspaper across the United States in order to impress upon citizens the brutality and futility of wars...
...museum has been laid out so that its 125,000 visitors a month can enjoy the nation's treasures and relate them to a past that in Mexico never seems remote. Every artifact on display has been mounted so that it remains a meaningful, individual object. Ancient Indian tribal music wafts softly through the 25 major galleries, each of which is a self-sufficient showcase of a different culture. Some 60 young women, scholars and linguists all, show visitors around. Views from the galleries lead the eye to the surrounding 2,223-acre Chapultepec park, where replicas of temples...