Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been hired at the price of academic credit and a good grade. If our nontheatrical, artless English student is admitted instead, the net gain to the Loeb stage is zero, and he might well have learned more of value in a regular dramatic literature course. One could object that I have drawn polarized caricatures, and that a really good actor must have a broad interest in the drama. Both objections can be countered by interviewing the cast of almost any theatrical production here, in New York, or anywhere...
...based missiles in Turkey and Italy. McNaughton also traveled to Moscow with Averell Harriman to help negotiate the test-ban treaty. Because he may be called to work on "crises" at any moment, McNaughton says he doesn't "dare run the risk of being away from his office." The object of risk is a single telephone with a blue light at which he stares with awe. If the phone rings, assistant secretary Gilpatric is calling; if both the phone rings and the light shines, Secretary McNamara is on the line...
...more than three inches high, which have the pulpy look of ancient artifacts dug up after centuries. Some are whimsical toys others complex hieroglyphs-one called Sacrifice is at once bull and matador, the horns becoming the man and his sword while another semicircular form suggests that the whole object is the sword's hilt...
...sick object of Gogol's love is an inflatable rubber dummy that can be made to assume an infinite number of seductive shapes depending on the pressure to which it is inflated. But as Gogol's love grows, so does his distaste for his aging rubber wife, and the two "struggle so fiercely with each other in his heart" that on his silver wedding anniversary he deliberately overinflates his wife and blows her to bits, crying, "Oh, how I love her, how I love her, my poor, poor darling...
Kennedy concluded: "Most of the critics have been firing at the wrong target. The Munich Pact itself should not be object of criticism but rather the underlying factors, such as the state of British opinion and the condition of Britain's armaments which made 'surrender' inevitable. To blame one man, such as Baldwin, for the unpreparedness of British armaments is illogical and unfair, given the conditions of democratic government...