Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American physician I object strongly to the one-sided vision you and most Americans have of American medicine. I object to the implication that the A.M.A. consists mainly of money-hungry gnomes growing fat on the infirmity of others. I object to the implication that most American hospitals are shabbily administered barns where mature, gentle, understanding, heroic people are pricked, poked, herded and harassed practically against their will with almost no regard for their psychological and emotional needs. It just isn't so. But why this overreaction...
...object lessons let us tune in the dressing room of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers at the Boston Teaparty last weekend. The Burrito Brothers are a group of ex-Byrds and associates who travel with the Byrds and play on their albums sometimes. There are four Byrds now. Only one of them is an original Byrd; that is Jim McGuinn, who changed his first name to Roger because he thought it was a better name. The other three Byrds are more or less new, at least not original...
Most concentrators object to the lack of contact with faculty and to the "passiveness" of physics course work, Shipman said yesterday. No thesis is required, and until this Fall there was no tutorial program...
...sure many will object that of what is included too much is pornographic. Advance notice on the book made it sound like a singular piece of middlebrow porno that would bring about a best-selling marriage between the wandering tribe of former Salinger aficionadoes and Jacqueline Susann's camp followers. But Roth reads so quickly and so engagingly that much of what could pass for smut is more parody than prurience. The book lacks the turgid seriousness that marked Updike's Couples as a more perfect example of the genre. Portnoy--who admits to being "the Raskolnikov of jerking...
Others argue that in marriages across the generation gap, there is often so little genuine communication that each partner treats the other as a sort of exotic object. But such psychological distancing may be very valuable. It frequently breeds a courtesy and romantic regard that in a marriage of contemporaries disappears under a mound of unpaid bills and diapers...