Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under Miller's tutelage this idealism grew naturally into the view that the most worthy object of historical study is human consciousness. His concern is not for the great systembuilders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning...
Pusey concluded by saying he was sorry that students thought the university "was an appropriate first object for revolutionary zeal." Instead of seeing the university as "the wicked servant of a wicked world," he said that "it would seem to me that the institution before all institutions which university men would choose not to attack in anger and in hate with intent to maim or cripple or destroy . . . would be the university itself...
Sense Robbery. A placid, pawky art dealer, Sir Edward More (Nicol Williamson) is abruptly seized with an uncontrollable passion. Its object is Margot (Anna Karina), usherette in a London cinema. Gutted by desire, Sir Edward cannot be home with his wife and child for more than a minute before lunging for the doorway and heading back to the moviehouse. There he gropes through a guffawing audience for yet another glimpse of the girl. At last an assignation is arranged, an agreement extracted. In scenes of purest Feydeau farce, Sir Edward pursues Margot in and out of hallways and bedrooms split...
...Northern Songs, founded in 1963 to handle the songwriting business of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, was the object of a takeover bid by Britain's Associated Television, producer of The Avengers. Associated bought up 35% of the stock in March and made a $23.5 million tender offer for the rest; the company now has just over 36% of the shares. Lennon and McCartney, each of whom owns 15% of the company, fought the takeover by calling for help from the other Beatles and making their own tender for 20% of the shares...
...object of their affection turned out to be fatally fickle. Because of Corvair's heavy tail and its unique rear suspension system, critics charged that its rear wheels sometimes "tucked under" on corners, causing an alarming tendency for the car to roll over. The car was also vulnerable to side winds that caused unexpected sashays on the road. A redesign of the rear axle and other modifications fixed those failings in 1964. More than 150 lawsuits were filed for more than $25 million in damages...