Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. All wore skirts, high heels and jangly jewelry. When the office closed at 6:30 p.m., two of them powdered their noses and left for home without more ado. But the two others swathed themselves dutifully in djellabah and veil; they were bound for families which did not object to their leaving the house, but demanded adherence at home to the customs of old. Says Princess Aisha: "The veil itself is not important. What is important is that a woman has the right to wear it or not, as she chooses...
...Knesset. Only half the members were present, and four chairs at the Cabinet ministers' table stood empty. An Israeli M.P. was recalling the peril that faced his nation exactly a year before, when its troops stood ready to launch their attack on the Sinai Peninsula. A small object flew through the air from the direction of the visitors' gallery. Like the well-trained old soldier that he is, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion ducked to the floor as the missile hurtled past his snowy, hair, but nobody else moved. A second later, the tossed hand grenade exploded...
...solution to the problem, says Hocking, can be found in carrying the whole "I-think" subjectivism to its logical conclusion. Since man cannot think nothing, I-think implies an object or experience. But every object and experience can be shared by others, and so I-think implies the notion of Thou-art. Science itself reveals this sense of ''inter-subjective reality" every time "the lonely experimenter, wherever he is, knows he has discovered truth as unquestionably a truth for everyman . . . Modernity has thus held to its own type of certitude, its science, its humanistic confidence in human thinking...
...York Herald Tribune Music Critic Paul Henry Lang is noted for long, learned phrases, but in one of his reviews last week he was reduced to a simple, heartfelt "Whew!" Object of Lang's whewing: the finest Don Giovanni in recent memory, and probably the most all-round satisfying show yet mounted by General Manager Rudolf Bing at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Carson McCullers' brilliant individuality and special feeling for life have been clouded and blurred. Aided by a sensitive production, The Member of the Wedding was a successful mood play. With a much less helpful production, Square Root is all clash of moods. Though plainly the object is to deplore complicated neurotic love, the wrecked marriage is treated too realistically for a play with so special an angle of vision. Again, though the object is to exalt simple feeling, the love story is so romantically colorless as to leave no angle of vision at all. What generally emerges...