Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STUDENT (droning): "The Lord is my external-internal integrative mechanism. I shall not be deprived of gratifications for my viscerogenic hungers or my need-dispositions. He motivates me to orient myself towards a nonsocial object with effective significance...
...Object of the sanctions was Ian Smith's white-supremacist regime in Rhodesia, which has been deplored as an international renegade ever since it broke away from British rule 13 months ago. By a vote of 11 to 0-with four abstentions-the council declared an international embargo on 90% of Rhodesia's exports, forbade the U.N.'s 122-member nations to sell oil, arms, motor vehicles or airplanes to the rebel territory or to provide it with any form of "financial or other economic...
Even in the delightful business of buying presents for children, the object often reflects the donor's own desires-the football from the frustrated athlete, the telescope as a gentle push toward studiousness-rather than an understanding of the child's inner world. Not that entering this world is easy; and, oddly, it gets harder as children grow older. The blight of depersonalization sets in with the increasing inclination of teen-agers to ask for and receive plain money. Explains one Boston 17-year-old, who insists on cold cash: "If they buy it, it's always...
...that ever-widening circle of giving outside the family, Christmas sometimes takes on an aspect of the potlatch, a ceremony of the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest, during which the chiefs showered gifts on each other. Their object was to surpass a rival in generosity, and to crush him under future obligations. To avoid this nowadays, ground rules must be observed. Within an office, the first move must come from the superior-and if the subordinate responds with a gift, it should be clearly less valuable...
...while cool air moves in to take their place, setting up convection currents that feed the blaze. In the weightlessness of space flight, the scientists discovered, there is no reason for the combustion products to rise. Unless they are disturbed by an artificial draft they hover around the burning object, quickly forming a blanket that excludes oxygen and suffocates the flames...