Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grammar. This, of course, makes it impossible to tell them apart... By now the pupil is completely distracted thanks to a toothache, but the professor persists. His lesson, a mixture of sophistry and flights of fancy, is incomprehensible. At last, in the climactic scene, he holds up an imaginary object and orders the girl to repeat "knife" in each of the Neo-Spanish idioms. But her pain has become unbearable, she cannot obey, and he stabs her to death with the invisible knife. His triumph is complete...
...twofold object of the trip was to publicize the Administration's see-America-first campaign-part of the drive to stem the outflow of tourist dollars-and to boost its new highway-beautification program. Taken along as tour guides were Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall. Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton and Laurance Rockefeller, chairman of a White House conference on natural beauty...
When Nikita Khrushchev opened the gates of Stalin's concentration camps and set free hordes of political prisoners, he proudly boasted that "only lunatics" could object to life in Russia. So it seemed only logical for Nikita to deal with the intellectual critics of his own regime by locking them up not in harsh prisons-but in lunatic asylums. As men in white coats largely replaced the policemen, hundreds of writers, artists and other outspoken objectors to Communism vanished from the Moscow scene, to reappear in psychiatric hospitals as "mental cases...
...source) racing away from earth at 80% of the speed of light. That brief observation last week surely marks a significant milestone in the expanding reach of modern astronomy. Since speed is related to distance, the speed of Schmidt's quasar makes it by far the most distant object ever identified. Even more important, discovering the quasar meant that Dr. Schmidt had refined a delicate technique that will almost certainly find still more distant objects and lead man close to the edge (if there is an edge) of the observable universe...
...propose that chairs and small tables be placed on the balcony, and that students and faculty be allowed to bring picnic lunches, say, from noon until two o'clock. At other hours, the balcony would remain closed. Certainly, there would be some difficulties. Timid professors would object to students peering in at them through the floor-to-ceiling windows. (As a solution, we suggest the use of their floor-to-ceiling curtains...