Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even that aspect of the spirit which he termed "self-consciousness," may be said to have form in that it is treated as an object for study by psychologists, philosophers, and phenomenologists. But true self-consciousness "is always on the side of the subject," and cannot really be made an object of study...
However, when the book was dropped, educational values were partially forgotten. While direct protest did not cause the board's action publishers learned that bowdlerized editions still hurt too many feelings. The crux of the matter is that, while education should try to give some emotional security, its primary object is development of the free mind. Since Huckleberry Finn serves that object well, ignorance is a high price for protecting feelings which, if aided by mature understanding, would not be hurt anyway...
...least six white men were apprehended by soldiers during the day, but the arrests seemed to be more object lessons than reactions to specific guilt...
...plant looks as if it were made by some sort of scanning technique. Servo says that its instruments take their pictures on ordinary photographic film, first translating the heat image into a light image. If necessary, the instruments can be made sensitive to very small differences of temperature. An object that is one degree warmer or colder than its environment is detectable under field conditions. In the laboratory much smaller contrasts are sufficient. A woman's legs photograph bright because her stockings are transparent to heat from her skin. Her girdle shows faintly under her skirt because...
...your Aug. 26 story on Confidential and Hollywood: please be more careful in future about associations. It isn't that those of us in publicity object so much to your flat statement, "Tips for stories were handed the Meades . . . by a shadowy legion of informants who ranged from call girls and pressagents . . ." It's just that our wives are asking, if we are in this classification, how come our take home pay is so little...