Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORE OF THE MONKEES (Colgem). Purists may object to the fact that the Monkees were hand-picked and trained to make money instead of deciding how to do it themselves. But the younger rock 'n' roll fans care nothing for the origin of the species. They have bought the second Monkee LP even faster than the first. It is all there: the early-Beatle beat and the simplistic lyrics ("I promise you the sun is going to shine again"). I'm a Believer is the hit of the disk...
...Fistful of Dollars, the perfect western, is without suspense--there's not a who-dunnit, what's-happening-baby minute in it. Sergio Leone doesn't let melodrama disturb his intimacy with an object or an actor's gesture...
...Institute is not designed to recruit, he suggests, but rather it does change a student's perspective. It's object is to attract students to a study of today's policy problems at a point in their education when Ulam believes they should be exposed to history and theory. The Institute aims at exciting young people about becoming the Secretary of Defense -- "undergraduates should be left alone for a few years before they are faced with this kind of specialization...
...myself, I demand only that a picture or an object be interesting; it need not be beautiful or even have a meaning. Much so-called modern art, however, does not interest me; some of the things currently presented as art seem to me to be atrocities. I resent the contention so commonly made today that it is my duty and that of all other persons to make a continuing effort to understand and appreciate it. As a scientist, I have some esoteric interests of my own, but I do not insist that anyone else share my interests in these things...
...world is suffering from too much killing. If you want to analyze the killing that is going on, there are many people that have been killed by the millions, far more than the people who have been killed here as a result of repression, in tolerance, and war. My object in life as a lawyer, as a judge and now, is to try to bring some sense into the world community so that a rule of law will operate in the world. That's why I'm where I am. I know of no better way to do this than...