Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shoulder to shoulder under a 120-ft.-high pylon put up with the help of army engineers, they were led in prayer by shaven-headed monks while a girls' choir sang hymns. Then down from a candle-laden altar was handed a glass case containing a small blackened object identified as the preserved heart of Thich Quang Duc, the first monk to burn himself alive during last year's Buddhist demonstrations...
...public schools or not. But, the U.S. court added, it was unmistakably clear that Prince Edward County had exercised its option solely to prevent white and Negro children from attending classes together. "Whatever nonracial grounds might support a State's allowing a county to abandon public schools, the object must be a constitutional one, and grounds of race and opposition to desegregation do not qualify as constitutional," wrote Black. Since "relief needs to be quick and effective," the Justices declared that federal district courts had the power to compel county supervisors to raise taxes for the reopening...
...matched and sparkling runs and trills, she embellishes even the embellishments. Maria Callas (on Angel's earlier version of I Puritani) has no such quicksilver in her voice, but in many poetic passages, exquisitely shaded and phrased, she is the better proof of Bellini's proposition: "The object of opera should be to weep in song...
...Sciences division, unified by certain of the aims and procedures of the studies within it, is not meant to be a wholly integrated unit. For all the similarities between Natural Science and Behavioral Science, they remain significantly different in method and object of inquiry; and they are at different stages of development as disciplines...
...great object in view," explained the Bishop of Oxford, "is to make him the most perfect man." Surely not impossible, according to the phrenologist, Dr. George Combe; the infant Prince of Wales not only had splendid "moral and intellectual" bumps, but gave every sign of developing his "higher powers of control" at the expense of his lower ones. At that happy news, even the Queen seemed satisfied. She was confident, she wrote, that "the dear child" would grow up to be just like "his angelic, dearest father...