Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Director Edwin Spengler of Brooklyn's School of General Studies and his assistant director, Bernard Stern, first began working on the experiment, they had already decided that the regular undergraduate program (enrollment: 15,000) was not entirely suitable for adults. For one thing, some grownups object to being put in a class with boys and girls half their age. More important, many have learned enough on their own to put them way ahead in some subjects. Even without an A.B., a businessman is apt to know quite a bit about economics. A writer should have learned something...
...Prague, where President Antonin Zapotocky himself attended the games, the arena was packed with Heroes of Labor, Deserving Teachers of the People, Communist Activists. Cheers for the Canadians were diffident, and the game was rough. Czechs, who object to the Canadians' enthusiastic body checking, climbed up the backs of Penticton players and slashed with their skates, an unforgivable sin in the West. The Czech referees' whistles were remarkably silent. After the Vs had tied one game, 3-3, and won the next, 6-0, Penticton's player-coach, Grant Warwick, had to skate around the ice blowing...
...Democrats made their bid for election-year tax popularity last week by pushing a bill through the House to save every person twenty dollars in 1956. Just a few close-calculating plutocrats might object to a twenty-dollars tax cut, and then only on the ground that the nation's largest taxpayers deserve even more relief...
Tantia held his breath as the village headmen rose and approached; he was relieved when they thanked him. The Black God, Kaladev, did not seem to object either. Last week Tantia was busy with a project to bring water to the desert people. But after that, he had another urgent job to do-shopping for more odhnis...
...suggesting that the props of life, and finally life itself, add up to a shabby bargain. In this work. Heroine Constance, hopelessly crippled in a World War II bombing, has no intention of divorcing herself from the world. Transformed from a good-looking, athletic girl into an object of pity, she determines to live through other people. Flip, shrewdly cynical and bossy, she helps care for a crippled child, tries to manipulate the thinking and affairs of a beautiful nymphomaniac, a black-marketeer, a Protestant minister. Aunt Mathilde, who earns a pathetic living for herself and Constance, is appalled...