Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only the most nervous will object to the U.S.'s trimming the fat off its European forces and withdrawing men who can be replaced by technology. But the argument will continue whether it would be safe also to withdraw many combat troops-perhaps even most, as Ike is suggesting...
...Your only job is to keep me awake," wrote Littlejohn. "How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx eyes over every other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just 'medieval cathedrals'-name nine. Think of a few specific examples of 'contemporary decadence,' like Natalie Wood...
...whether to remain sunk in the stick-in-the-mud attitudes of the twenties and thirties, a prey to Depression fixations, meeting today's prosperity with yesterday's attitudes of mind, or whether to operate an up-to-date organization in modern conditions of affluence, where the object would be to produce as much wealth as possible and get a fair and increasing reward for an honest day's work. For the industrialist, the choice is whether to play safe, to divide up the market, to insist on restrictive practices, or whether to get out and take...
...momentary superiority to a man who had temporarily made an idiot of himself. He had the further bad fortune to be a romantic and, what is more, a romantic who was foolish enough to marry the heroine of his own novels. Scott's Zelda was the love object a worse and more prudent man would have rejected when the tinsel tarnished. Fitzgerald stayed in love...
...novelist of any age. If anything, such sniping gets in derstand the man, his writing, or his age. If anything such sniping gets in the way. Geismar means to correct the contemporary estimate of James and to locate him more precisely in the history of American literature--a commendable object, surely. But, because of his approach, he only succeeds in directing a barrage of snide footnotes at his colleagues and in reducing poor James to a psychological heap...