Word: objective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anonymous good-willers in Manitoba and Minnesota put up $1,000 as a prize for an "impartial" U.S.-Canadian history textbook. Object: to teach elementary and high-school students on both sides of the border the same versions of the same events, thus promote Canadian-U.S. understanding...
...never been particularly impressed with the Digest's capsule theory of life and its assumption that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...
...first Republican object their eyes fell on, to his considerable discomfort, was Harrison Spangler...
...Time (Warners) earnestly dramatizes the collision between a resistible force (liberalism) and a movable object (feudalism). The place: Poland, just before World War II. When Polish Aristocrat Paul Henreid tells his family he intends to marry British Commoner Ida Lupino, his mother drop's and breaks a cherished teacup. They marry anyhow, and by the time the Nazis invade Poland the wife has turned her idle husband into a man, his estate into a solvent farm, his ancestral home into a one-night playroom for the peasants-who are delighted to have become sharecroppers. A reactionary uncle...
...second scene two picadores on padded horses take turns inviting the bull to charge them. When he does, they stick their lances in the bull's neck muscles and try to hold him off so that he cannot get at horse or man. (Object: to tire the bull's neck muscles so that he lowers his head in charging, exposing the spot which the matador must hit to kill him.) Next, the peones (or sometimes the matador) place three pairs of beribboned darts in the bull's hump (object: to excite the bull and keep him lively...