Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old university student who watched with great hope and anticipation while a man I never had heard of, in a country never spoken of, built carefully, step by step, that intangible but priceless object-freedom. Then came the familiar rumbling of iron tanks. Bitterly, I look to my leaders to find them afraid of intervening, yet ever anxious to send more and more troops to a corner in Southeast Asia, where they care about neither Communism nor freedom. I turn to the United Nations and find them playing a game that they can never win. And most bitterly...
Fallen Standard. McCarthy's object was to cast Humphrey as the heavy: a hawk on Viet Nam, a racist for not having agreed to the peremptory disac creditation of several Southern delegations, an autocrat when it came to seating arrangements and telephone allocations. Humphrey's men, in fact, bent over backward to be equitable...
...note. Today, California embraces the vast, variegated range of op, pop and minimal, not to .mention such homegrown mutations as the weird, surrealistic offshoot known as funk centered around San Francisco. Los Angeles' particular contribution is an array of bright young individualists who espouse the belief that the object is what is important, not what it represents. "We are going beyond abstraction," argues Robert Irwin, who at 40 is something of a guru to the group. Irwin's own works are illuminated disks set against a white wall. Others in the group vary widely but are united...
Critics could hardly object to his 16 years (1946 to 1962) of service as Under Secretary of the U.N., or to his 17 years as history and political science chairman at Indiana's Manchester College. But some dissidents still found absurdly farfetched excuses to attack Cordier's record. They noted sourly that he was Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold's special representative during the U.N.'s 1960 Congo operations. His hands, said the students, were bloody with the murder of Congo Rebel Patrice Lumumba. They also charged vaguely that he had supported CIA activities. Within an hour...
...rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object," the symbolist poet had written, "is to do away with three-quarters of the enjoyment. To suggest it, to evoke it -that is what charms the imagination." The art of suggestion, Vuillard discovered, required subtle materials; oil on canvas seemed too shiny and thick. He started painting on unprepared pasteboard, which...