Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executive Office Building, just west of the White House, to coordinate the information pouring forth from the myriad federal agencies. "I won't have the power of veto," insisted Klein. "Extending the flow of news is what I'm interested in." But he admitted that the object of his new job, unprecedented in the Federal Government, will also be "to develop a better image" for the Nixon Administration...
...report amply supports a fact long known to lawyers: witnesses of the same event seldom describe it the same way. A Grant Park clash between police and demonstrators began when half a dozen burly young men lowered the American flag and hoisted another object to the top of the pole. "Object" is used advisedly: though it was seen by hundreds of people and police and examined on film by the Walker staff, no one can yet say what it was. It has been described as a "black flag of anarchy," a "red flag" and a "Viet Cong flag." Some witnesses...
...rather unclear and not very dignified relation to technology. We put hope in the machine and then get frustrated when it deceives us. How the artist in particular looks upon technology is very important-because it is the freest, the most human way of looking at a nonhuman object. Perhaps the artist will show us the way to a better relationship...
...spirit of community. This is an extremely attractive premise, and the production earns credit as fine didactic theatre: tonic but never argumentative. But it is also an important premise, and an arguable one. Like all didactic art, this Schweyk must stand on the force with which it advances its object lesson, and its simple success as theater...
Some people object that the urge to fend for oneself in as aggressive a manner as possible is basic human nature. This is not so. It is all a matter of human conditioning and any conditioning can be de-conditioned...