Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year's show had a medieval setting, hardly original but workable enough. One Knight's Stand concerned a schlemiel of a knight named Weritas (hmmph!), who was seeking the hand of fair Tupel' Aura. Her sisters advise against the union because of Weritas' ineptitude, and a group of witches object for totally obscure reasons. The plot was flimsy, but generally unobtrusive. In the second act however, the girls tried to interject a peace "message" concerning senseless bloodshed on the jousting field. They would have had to underplay it far more than they did for it not to seem...
...During the time that I have been in the U.S.," writes British Journalist Henry Fairlie in the October issue of Commentary, "I have found nothing more strange or more unattractive than the way in which American intellectuals take pleasure in reviling President Johnson. It is not simply that they object to his policies in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. It is a feeling of strong personal revulsion. 'He is a slob,' one of them said to me. Others say much the same...
...heard Coleman tell Daniels that the store was closed, but that Daniels opened the door anyway-and "I heard a shot." Morrisroe, Crocker said, "made a break like he was going for the door.". Crocker solemnly avowed that in Daniels' right hand "there was a bright, shiny object that resembled a knife," while Father Morrisroe had something in his right hand that he "took to be a pistol. I saw a round object like a gun barrel." Two defense witnesses, a county construction employee and a stockyard worker, added that they later saw two Negroes leaning over the bleeding...
...table, cut off the recorded music out of respect for the occasion, and crowded in 1,000 of the faithful. As Lauri, 69, made his runs, Mosconi wore a crushing expression of disdain. It upset Lauri's concentration so much that he committed an inexcusable scratch-missing the object ball entirely. "You play with this guy," groaned Lauri, "and you get punch-drunk...
...indenture warned that the fund was not to be diminished "by supplementing any other object, however meritorious, or kindred in its nature.". The University argues in its latest brief that the object of the trust is "to increase and disseminate scientific knowledge in the field of trees and shrubs in the public interest." Since the transfer served that purpose, it concludes, it was not a breach of trust...