Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only part of the explanation for his success. For one thing, Japan's anti-American mood had been severely overestimated-particularly by the Tokyo press. In fact, some of the grievances that had sparked the protests, including the one in front of the Tokyo hospital, were less ideological objections than complaints against the noise of helicopters bringing in wounded G.I.s, jets landing at bases, and other down-to-earth factors. Sato acted quickly to move some military installations away from populated areas, but clearly most Japanese do not object in principle to their presence. Moreover, Lyndon Johnson...
...parts of the play's concluding song are sung by two different trios drawn from the comic personae. And finally the stars can be seen twinkling in the darkening sky, as the object of love's labour is not lost, but only postponed...
...disagree completely with your article on The Gun [June 21], but I will defend unto death your right to say it with a rock, poker or some other hard object. FRED L. NORMANDIN JR. Forest Grove...
...repeatedly urged NASA to get on with the job of planning trips to the earth's planetary neighbors. Since unmanned probes have all but proved that the moon is devoid of life, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Harold C. Urey, for one, believes that it may be a "terribly dull object." Urey and many of his colleagues are now leaning more and more to the once unfashionable notion that life may be found elsewhere in the solar system-even if it is nothing more complicated than simple plants like moss or lichens...
Fear of Censorship. Certain treatments of homosexuality, of course, are as old to movies as the custard pie. Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made...