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Word: objectionable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burgess defends Wake against the obvious objection that it lacks intelligibility: "A book about a dream would be false if it made everything as clear as daylight. If it woke up and became rational it would no longer be Finnegans Wake." True enough, but a more serious charge is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funagain | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

The moral attitude of the Wellelsey girl appears relativistic and sometimes self-contradicting. Three-quarters of these girls would not smoke marijuana, while almost nine-tenths have never smoked it. Most girls who refused to smoke it declared they had no curiosity about marijuana. On the other hand, only 40...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Malaise at Afternoon Tea: A Portrait Of Wellesley and the Girls Who Go There | 2/14/1967 | See Source »

Every state and city, of course, must compete for industry. Because antipollution equipment and procedures are expensive, a stringent local program inevitably discourages new plants in the area. Other local interests can also come into play. When the Arizona legislature debated a smog-abatement bill last week, one member charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Environment: Who Is to Police Pollution? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

Dibelius' objection to Nazism and Communism was mainly theological rather than political: both ideologies, he believed, subverted the Christian faith. An ecumenical pioneer who helped found the World Council of Churches, Dibelius was devoutly evangelical as well as Evangelical. In his sermons he preached his conviction that the Gospel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: A Defender of the Church | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

The details of the commission's position on conscientious objection, national service, the volunteer army, and the autonomy of local draft boards were not available last night. It will be some two weeks. Bradley H. Patterson, executive director of the commission, said last night, before the report is made public...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Draft Commission to Ask End of II-S | 2/9/1967 | See Source »

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