Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Roberts, President of the South Middlesex Branch of NAACP, explained yesterday that his organization's regional office had protested showings of the picture in all parts of the country for several years. "We object to the way the movie depicts us," Roberts said, "and we hope to persuade people...
...poor" in the central city and old suburbs. In fact, his presentation leaves little room for even qualified optimism. The spread of "pathological culture" generated in the slums is the primary threat to the city, according to Banfield, and prevention of its growth ought to be the first object of city policy. Although it sounds fearsome, just what this diseased culture consists of, and how it spreads remains unclear...
...doubt many would-be heirs of Napoleon will object to your impertinent Milestone about the shame of General Maxime Weygand. But your judgment was quite right; the old soldier typified the weakness of his time and of his country. Compared to the now-disparaged "Anglo-Saxons," Weygand and his colleagues were made of mousse. Surely only Gallic "rationalism" combined with characteristic grandeur could induce any Frenchman today to think otherwise...
...report says, led to a 13% defection of Republican voters among persons over 50 years old-the G.O.P.'s biggest age-group loss. Even more hurtful to the Republican future was the fact that Goldwater's campaign "alienated most young people" and made the party "an object of ridicule" in their eyes...
Lyndon Johnson does not often get publicly angry at labor, but he was coldly furious last week. Object of his wrath: the striking longshoremen, who had rebuffed two presidential pleas to return to work, were in the fifth week of a senseless strike that halted the nation's waterborne commerce from Maine to Texas. Not only was continuation of the strike "totally unjustified," said the President, but "the injury to the economy has reached staggering proportions...