Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SPACE ODYSSEY has as its key character a shining oblong object symbolizing a great extraterrestrial intelligence that has overseen mankind since the Pliocene age. Though it fails as drama, Stanley Kubrick's venture succeeds as dazzling visual...
...hero is not a simple misogynist, not a fully accredited human being with but one blank space in his account. Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...
...director, has made fine use of the surroundings provided him, and can be criticized only for not yet having coaxed any really sparkling performances from his excellent cast. Richard Kiley as Caesar and Bruce MacKay as Rufio are the best of a dry, consistent lot; the most notable object of disappointment is Leslie Uggams, who failed to convince me she can sing. Claudia McNeil, sadly, has little...
Though the A.F.L.-C.I.O. state political-education committee has grudgingly endorsed Fulbright as a lesser evil than Jim Johnson, a Negro leader has urged union members to join Negroes and white liberals in a protest vote for Bobby K. Hayes. The object would be to take enough votes away from Fulbright to force him into a runoff with Jim Johnson. What if Fulbright should lose such a runoff? Said another bitter Ne gro leader: "We don't care that much." Probably, though, a majority of Arkansans still do. What they want is more response from Bill Fulbright-perhaps some...
...delegates from developing nations, for example, on the 105-man committee that drafted the document on peace and international justice, which not only condemned the use of nuclear weapons in war but also gave support to the idea of selective pacifism. Traditionally, Christian moral theology has accepted conscientious objection only on the all-or-nothing basis of opposition to all warfare. Reflecting a new consensus of pacifists, both religious and secular, the council's resolution declared that churches should "give spiritual care and support to those who object to participation in particular wars they feel bound in conscience...