Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson stopped moving for a moment to give a TIME reporter his own rationale of the presidency-and an insight into the drive and dedication that carry him on and on and on. "You always have to bear in mind," he said, "that people are the purpose and object of this endeavor, from the biggest corporation president down to the poorest sharecropper. They have a babylike faith in me. It is just like the faith that you have in that pilot that's flying your airplane...
...Governors of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico were madder than wet hens, and all over a dry lake. The object of their ire was Interior Secretary Stuart Udall, whom they accused of stealing their hydroelectric water supply and using it to feed power plants in California and Udall's native Arizona...
...romantic agony, thinking, in the usual important italics, "There is no country but the heart." This seems to be a mere cliché until examination proves it something less than that-an untruth. Surely if Flood has any solid theme, it is that the physical shape of a loved object-in this case, Fiddlersburg-is important, that its loss is irrevocable, and that the spirit cannot make do without the flesh. In an understanding of this lies one of the differences between tragedy and sentimental melodrama...
...know every single object of this...
...dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...