Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paparazzi clicked their shutters as if Sophia were the target. In Paris he placed a bouquet on Marshal Alphonse Juin's coffin. France Soir captioned its picture: "The young lion of politics before the body of the old soldier." The newspaper also observed that the object of Kennedy's visit was "the White House-in 1972." That was all right with French voters. At a Picasso exhibit in the Grand Palais one young Frenchman said: "Picasso is completely outclassed. It is Bobby who is the hero of this exposition...
...Object of the Game: to be the first player to move your pawn-supposedly a Viet Cong defector-from either of the two starting squares (1) to the Open Arms defection centers...
...whole thing seems to be reduceable to a neat pattern. Faculty members object to a frustrating war, and they are looking for an acceptable, and still powerful, form of protest. They turn, therefore, to rank-in-class--which they consider harmful to the academic experience. Rank-in-class is a legitimate educational weapon for a larger, intellectual attack...
...citizenship are high for the thousands of Arabs who have immigrated since the discovery of oil. Among the 27,000 males who are eligible to vote, however, the Amir allowed more opposition to his government's policies than ever before. Most of it was from leftists who object to his aloofness from the rest of the Arab world and his restrictions on foreigners and the press. "Unless we change," cried their leader, Ahmad Khatib, a physician, "we will end up as the richest anachronism of the modern age." To no one's surprise, the government forces...
...system!). We demand more jobs for everyone NOW! Being free not to fight in an unjust war is a right that belongs to everyone, just as having a job is. So we demand an end to the draft and short of that, exemptions from combat for those who object to a particular war such as this...