Word: objections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these issues go far beyond professional ethics. For the sake of clarification and continuation of the "dialogue," I would like to take the offensive more coolly this time, as I have been doing concurrently with Prof. Vogel in California. But this is not an especially meek apology, for the object was, after all, to foment discussion; and as we all know, you yourself are not above "provocative" tactics...
...most part, the Joe Fridays in the nation's police departments operate out of the detective bureaus, taking care of what James Q. Wilson terms "law enforcement"--the job of solving felony cases such as homicide and grand larceny. Most of these cases have a clearly defined object--catching the criminal--which challenges the tough, analytical minds of the Fridays...
...spirt is only one part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences. The curriculum concentrates on great ideas rather than an accumulation of facts. The object is to help each student create his own world view, relate classroom concepts to his own life and become what one school official calls "a cultural revolutionary...
...take Footsee, the newest craze with the playground set. The toy consists of a plastic ankle ring to which is attached a 30-in. string with a bell-shaped weight at the other end. The object is to twirl the string with one foot and hop with the other; well-coordinated youngsters can now twirl three Footsees at once-one on each leg and one on an arm. In the first three months on the U.S. market, about 4,000,000 of the $1.29 toys have been sold. The reason cannot be novelty: a similar toy enjoyed brief popularity four...
Among urban cognoscenti, Los Angeles has long been an object of scorn. Many critics for years ridiculed the sprawling metropolis as a gaggle of suburbs "in search of a city." They had a point. The core of the city not only failed to share in Southern California's explosive postwar growth but developed ominous symptoms of decay. Though downtown Los Angeles remained a stronghold for banking, finance, oil and insurance, jobs in other fields followed people to the suburbs. Vacancy rates soared in dingy old office buildings. Sleazy stores and bad restaurants proliferated. Forsaken by many retailers, streets that...