Word: objective
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...object to what I consider a doctrine of "might makes right" in your Essay on Israel [June 23]. It is a fact that "ability to stake out a territory" with force if necessary will establish a sovereign state, but is that also its justification? What about groups that have identity and tradition but no power, for example, the American Indian and South Africa's Negro population? I am surprised at your lack of a sense of moral consciousness; or should I be glad that a national publication has had the candor to admit that for all of our 20th...
...titles like Edwin Reischauer's The United States and Japan. Its bestseller (100,000 copies since 1944) is the Harvard Dictionary of Music; yet it will keep in print any book that sells at least 125 copies a year, something no commercial firm can afford to do. "The object of the university press," says Wilson, "is to publish as many books as it can without losing its shirt." > Savoie Lottinville, 60, another Rhodes scholar and a former boxing instructor and newspaper reporter, has built the University of Oklahoma Press into the nation's standout example of a successful...
Primitive societies, in their simple wisdom, knew that sex could be propitiated only by rituals and taboos that handed on to succeeding generations the intuitive experience of the tribe. In our sophisticated world, there is only one efficacious object lesson in sex education-the authentic, God-given magic of unselfish parents who are loving and faithful to each other and to their offspring. The girl who fears motherhood does not lack accurate information so much as she lacks the reassuring experience, in her own life, of that genuine mother love "that casteth out fear." All the factual information...
Lichtenstein has gone on to kid other styles. Picasso was ripe for ribbing, he felt, because a Picasso "has become a kind of popular object-everyone feels he should have a reproduction of a Picasso in his home." In Woman with I Flowered Hat, Lichtenstein did "an oversimplification of Picasso, a kind of 'plain-pipe-racks' Picasso." Portions of the paintings were stenciled with Lichtenstein's distinctive Benday dots (applied with a toothbrush through a perforated screen) to simulate the effect of commercial printing-and also to remind the viewer that he is looking at the popular...
Quincy and Winthrop also produced "large-scale musical events," although of a rather different sort. Musical comedy is a convenient object of musical condescension around here, but Quincy and Winthrop constitute an oasis of adamant naivete in the desert of general sophistication...