Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee's recommendations, giving students a part in decisions that were committing huge sums of money to housing plans to which many girls object, were commendable, and the Council should be sharply criticized for not recognizing the merit of those recommendations and approving them...
...with welcome support from Britain, gambled against time last week in hopes of settling the Arab-Israeli crisis before it engulfed the Middle East-and perhaps the great powers as well. The object, as British Foreign Secretary George Brown told a hushed House of Commons, was "to prevent confrontation from bursting into conflagration." But whether the gamble would succeed depended on which would be exhausted first-the diplomatic alternatives to war or the patience of the edgy antagonists. "Time," said Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson after an urgent meeting in Washington with Lyndon Johnson...
Chickens of the Sea. Delaying that decision for as long as possible is the chief object of U.S. diplomacy. "The White House position is to pursue the Middle East matter as thoroughly as possible in the United Nations," said Presidential Press Secretary George Christian. But the U.N. has performed ineptly, particularly in what Britain's Wilson described as the "precipitous and regrettable" withdrawal of the peacekeeping force from the Egyptian-Israeli border. New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger was even harsher in his judgment. In meekly pulling out the U.N. force, he wrote, Secretary-General U Thant "used...
Cruising on Land. Thus equipped, the new breed of pioneers can gather around the old late show on TV, sleep beneath their toasty-warm electric blankets, and wake up to shave with plug-in razors while the coffee makers perk merrily away. If the old object of camping as a spartan way of getting back to nature has thereby been lost, it is beside the point...
Renaissance artists prided themselves on their mastery of perspective, which could make a flat-surfaced painting seem to recede into infinity; cubist painters warped the lines of sight to show several sides of the same object on a flat canvas. Today, younger artists are finding that they need even more room to explore their illusive imagery. The results are constructions (see color) that fall somewhere between two-dimensional painting and three-dimensional sculpture. The artists might best be described as working in 21 dimensions...