Word: objection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grenade-launcher or a six-barrel minigun that fires 6,000 rounds per minute. A special helmet linked to an infra-red light beam allows the pilot to aim his fire system by moving his head, while the gunner, using a periscopic sight, can presumably hit an object as small as a car radiator cap from 1 ± miles away...
...news that the Viet Cong had sought last September to send representatives to the United Nations. The U.S. said that it would not object to such a visit as long as the guerrillas were really interested in conducting "official business." But, added the State Department, "we do oppose their coming merely to mount a propaganda campaign." The V.C. thereupon abandoned their effort, indicating that they very well might have been after headlines. But the intriguing notion also remains that they might have been after something more...
...duration of an act, becoming part of Fisk's legacy. Fisk reacts to his first financial triumph by destroying his Jersey City hotel room. The scene is reminiscent of Charles Foster Kane destroying his wife's room when she leaves him. But in Welles's film, Kane's sole object is the furniture; in Prince Erie, the finite playing area itself cramps Fisk, and he becomes undisciplined energy trying, I suspect, to break the walls down, also Jersey City, anything that threatens to contain him. "Jersey City is our old bath water," bellows Fisk, "and we don't need...
...these days. Easily branded as clever and facile, Prince Erie deserves recognition as a play of some importance which approaches greatness. Its color and spectacle, energy and incredible humor, give the Loeb a kind of total theatre it rarely sees. Without attempting to offer up Prince Erie as an object lesson to aspiring Harvard theatremakers, it should just be said that Mayer's triumph is probably the best thing that's happened around this place in years...
...fact, the museum's potency as a symbol or cultural repository has been debatable for years. Surfeited by riches it has no room to display, gorged with books it offers little space to read, it is half-buried in the artifacts it seeks to preserve. For every object on display, nine more gather dust in grimy warehouses. Although the museum has more than 9,000,000 books, its reading rooms hold a scant 390 chairs, are nearly always packed despite a sponsorship system that bars all but scholars from using them. Stacks are so inaccessible that the waiting time...