Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famed underworld-had cracked the secrecy. For at least a week before the bachot, parents and children happily paid as much as $300 for the three tough questions on the philosophy section of the test, which turned out to be: "Does perception provide proof of the reality of an object? Is it correct to speak of the lessons of the past? Is liberty of judgment compatible with the necessity of truth?" As word spread to 80% of the local students and to Nice, Corsica, Toulon and Paris, the price dropped to $30. Many Frenchmen found the questions more interesting than...
...members of the Boston School Committee have resisted the proposed plan because they see such a move as an encroachment of the federal government into the local level. Others, according to Mayer, object on moral grounds. "Their attitudes are reminiscent of the English landlords during the Irish famine of 1847. They think feeding undernourished children would be bad for their moral fibre...
...deeply interested in Seale's and Rawlins' conception of Hamlet, and I have little curiosity about Reed's; so I object strongly to being deprived of a Seale-Rawlins production. Such unwarranted interference is bad enough when it occurs on Broadway; it is all the more disgraceful when it plagues a permanent, long-standing Shakespearean institution...
...once, the Hercules took flight, its injured passenger safely aboard, doubtless unaware that he had been the object of what was probably the greatest medical rescue in recent years. In the hospital at Christchurch, surgeons decided against operating on McMullen and expressed fears that the fall back at McMurdo may leave him paralyzed for life...
...Horace Armistead's imaginative, multi-level sets to good use; several scenes, especially the breaking of the oaths and the pageant of the Nine Worthies, are really funny pieces of stage business. (It's good to hear laughter in the Loeb after a spring of tragedy.) One might object that the first act is a bit slow or that the costumes are Napoleonic not Elizabethan, but such things matter little. In the hands of the Loeb players, "Love's Labour's Lost" is a frothy and fun beginning to the summer season...