Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seep into the car. Chrysler argued that the laws governing its highly publicized five-year warranty should be controlling. Not persuaded, the court added Alaska to a growing list of states that now make manufacturers strictly liable for any defect that ought not to exist-warranties not withstanding. The object, said Justice Buell Nesbett, "is to ensure that the cost of injuries resulting from defective products are borne by the manufacturers rather than by the injured persons, who are powerless to protect themselves...
...accident that men of moral integrity teaching politically sensitive subjects are afraid to teach at Cornell. Allegedly racist statements have been the object of coercive methods here before-and undoubtedly will be again. College administrators and faculty members all across the country will soon learn the term "racist" is now more a catchall than "Communist" was in Joe McCarthy's heyday...
...seduction scene, for example, the foreground figures are backed up by cows and by trees and mountains in the far distance. For a hiking scene in the mist--the most illusory of conditions--rock outcrops in right foreground key the shot by giving us an immediate material object. Contrasting with the figures in medium distance against the far rock-ledge, all the objects together establish real space between them. For Stroheim there is no such thing as a general form or formal similarity between different objects. Each object it its material self, nor is there one kind of object...
...with their avarice for power, their ruthlessness, and the spellbinding facility they have over other people. I cannot believe that in their hearts they are truly for the poor and the underprivileged; the concern they show appears to be just a rung in the ladder to power. I further object to a feature on Ethel Kennedy because she should be left alone. She has had a lot of tragedy in her life, and baring it all to the public will not help her. She is a public personality, but leave her in peace...
Politics aside (if that is possible), Robert Hutchins defines an intellectual as "a person who lives by his wits, whose first object is to educate himself. You can win a Nobel prize and still not be an intellectual." Historian Richard Hofstadter describes the intellectual as a man who lives for ideas, while the professional man lives off ideas. Another historian, Christopher Lasch, calls him "a person for whom thinking fulfills at once the function of work and play." Clearly, an intellectual's mind is not restricted to one discipline, but ranges widely in many areas, seeking larger patterns...