Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cliffies object to the smell. "You smoke a good cigar," retorts the manager of Leavitt and Peirce, "you get a good smell." Ban bad cigars...
...Modern knew about Lowry, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) father of two teenage daughters, long before then. MOMA Curator William Seitz (now at Brandeis) had been impressed by a contemporary-art exhibit, "The Object Makers," that Lowry staged while chairman of the art department at Pomona College from 1959 to 1963. Lowry is frank about what he considers the Modern's primary problem today: "It has suffered from being too successful...
...Vietnam. Of those politicians who support the war he says, "I have made an evaluation of their psyches and makeup, and I fear that I come up with nothing but negative responses." Slowly, the stiff, contrived prose becomes washed with delightful vehemence. "I think that people who don't object to the war are either ignorant or indifferent. Let's face it, the guys on my side are good guys, just good guys," says the good guy from U.N.C.L.E. "The other guys are not good guys. That's all there...
...lasting impact of Expo 67," intoned the usually low-keyed Pearson, "will be in the dramatic object lesson we see before our eyes today-that the genius of man knows no national boundaries, but is universal." As he spoke, church bells chimed throughout Montreal, fireboats in the river blasted streams of water into the air, a flight of jet planes screamed overhead, and a fusillade of fireworks splashed in the sky, sending to earth a burst of parachute blossoms that carried the flags of each of the 62 participating nations...
...loud and write poetry and predict the knockout round and tell off sportswriters and beat Sonny Liston so quickly and beat Ernie Terrell so brutally and become a Black Muslim and apply for exemption from the U.S. Army because you're a Muslim minister and because you object to the war in Vietnam. But it's worse, far worse to refuse to obey a law because of your religion and your conscience...