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Word: objective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain you will agree that some semblance of accuracy is required for good reportage. An accurate, well-written article is important not only to the general readership but also to the athletes involved. It is with this object in mind that I must criticize your coverage to date of the Harvard lightweight crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Sports Editor | 4/20/1973 | See Source »

Godard has grown vulnerable recently. He is no longer an object of fashion. In fact, he is now the victim of a new fashion of critical hard-boiledness that fears being put-on more than anything else. It may be that he will soon redescend into private political fantasies and pass out of our attention altogether. In any case, it is more than likely that his present experiments won't succeed; most experiments don't. But I suppose that's what is finally most to admire in Godard: not his path-breaking successes, but his willingness to fail...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Before the Revolution | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

Furthermore, advocates object to the money IRRC consumes in a year--a budget of about $200,000--which direly strapped advocate groups could...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: The ACSR: What Difference Can It Make? | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

...North Carolina Central University, the object of Haynsworth's opinion, the university president halted state funds to the Campus Echo after the paper editorially opposed an increased flow of white students into the predominantly black school. The president, Albert N. Whiting, said the editorial policy was racist and failed to "represent fairly the full spectrum of views" on the campus...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Two Kinds of Shields | 4/17/1973 | See Source »

...glowing light that was like melted silver on the sea." For all those months he remained plunged in a world of vivid color impressions: black earth, purple desert, the bleached bird droppings of 4,000 years running down obelisks and colossi, the deliriously blue sky. The official object of their expedition left him quite cold: he uttered a cry of conventional ecstasy at the first sight of the Sphinx and its "terrifying stare," but as for the temples, they "bore me profoundly." The living panorama of the voyage, however, made all his senses tingle with excitement. He responded to everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before Bovary | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

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