Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican revolution is no more Communist-controlled than the C.I.O. or the civil rights movement." Poet Archibald MacLeish attributed the U.S. response to "the old myopia of the McCarthy days." On more realistic grounds, a number of experts concede that the intervention may have been justified, but they object that by acting "unilaterally" and in violation of the OAS charter, the U.S. irreparably damaged its standing in Latin America...
...Convention People's Party then nominated 198 illustrious candi dates (including U.N. Delegate Alex Quaison-Sackey and Margaret Martei, secretary of the Women's Council), and last week Nkrumah simply declared them all elected-for lack of opposition. Explained Spark, the party weekly: "This will be an object lesson to all Africa on how democracy is organized and made to work smoothly and effectively under a one-party state...
...visual, the principal object of attention was Israel. Syria claimed Israeli artillery fire had halted work on the Arab project to divert the headwaters of the Jordan, called for a unified Arab air strike to silence Israel's guns. Still angry about West Germany's recognition last month of Israel, Syria urged joint 'economic sanctions against the Bonn government, raised again the proposal that all members of the Arab League establish relations with East Germany instead. The Syrian delegate even demanded that Tunisia, whose President, Habib Bourguiba, had recommended negotiations instead of war with Israel, be expelled...
Meaning in these stories is most often embodied in a common object charged with mysterious and terrible significance. In several of them a supernatural power is represented as a powerful animal. In Greenleaf, the story of an old woman obsessed by hate, a mad bull stands surrogate for divine vengeance-or perhaps for divine love? "The black, heavy shadow tossed its head several times and then bounded forward. Mrs. May remained perfectly still, not in fright, but in a freezing unbelief. She stared at the violent black streak bounding toward her as if she could not decide what his intention...
...responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise the debate. Ali's cup ranneth over when two trustees of the Union resigned and a third, Sir David Lindsay Keir, 70, barked Blimpishly, "I have served my Queen and country [from 1915 to 1917], and I object to being told what to do by someone who comes from a country which has no allegiance to the Crown. We might have to take advice from Eskimos and Hottentots next...