Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mysterious flying object--or objects--were sighted in the air about 100 feet above Bertram Hall last night. According to the reports of numerous phone calls to the CRIMSON, the object was yellowish, with a clear outline of oval "or egg shape, you might even say saucer shape...
Small groups of Moors Hall girls stood outside in the Quad waiting for the object to reappear. Some of those standing outside said the thing had had a red light in the middle; others said a blue light. Also among the original sighters were Susan B. Tepper '66, Kathryn D. Emmett '66, Judith A. Good-man '66, and Amy L. Delson...
...PETER PHILLIPS, 25, is an industrious craftsman who rejects pop art's emphasis on the painted object, regards his own work as "a bit traditional. Subject matter is not the most important thing," he says. "Like building a computer, you don't want anything that's not supposed to be there." Son of a Birmingham carpenter, Phillips fell into art school because he was too "cowardly" to work at a trade. At the Royal College of Art, he rebelled against painting "flowers and nude ladies" and turned out "huge paintings that looked a bit like 100th-rate...
...first rolled the left eyeball over in its socket and applied heat, to "glue" the retina in place so that it would not become detached during surgical manipulation. With an ultrasound device that worked from outside the eyeball, Dr. Bronson was able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked...
...Bronson pushed the probe into the gelatinous "vitreous body" that fills most of the eyeball and searched. When the oscilloscope showed that he was within a millimeter of the foreign body, Dr. Bronson closed the minuscule forceps attached to the probe. His aim was perfect. The forceps grasped the object, and Dr. Bronson carefully extracted a sliver of brass, ¼-inch long and 3/16-inch wide. Though the whole operation on Jimmy's eye took an hour and a half, the actual location of the sliver and its removal took only 39 seconds...