Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily life, our eye, charged with thought neglects, as would a classical tragedy, every image that does not assist the action of the play and retains only those that may help to make its purpose intelligible. But if in place of our eye, it should be a purely material object, a photographic plate that has watched the action, then what we shall see in the courtyard of the Institute for example, will be, instead of the dignified emergence of an Academician who is going to hail a cab, his staggering gait, his precautions to avoid tumbling on his back...
...assault on Mrs. Scarlett was not merely an attempted rape, but a grotesque sexual debasement in which the woman was treated as if she were the chief object of a pigsticking game. Millington's defense is handled by his contemporary. Second Lieut. Arthur Drake (Michael York), who figures his client is guilty but cannot quite allow himself to go along with the military court's charade of justice. A good thing, too, be cause there is an increasingly likely chance that Millington is blameless...
Says Brenda Bird, a buyer for Alexander's, the big New York department store chain: "We can't keep them in stock. Price is no object." Agrees Kal Ruttenstein, a Saks Fifth Avenue vice president: "It's the only fashion silhouette this fall." Retailers and manufacturers, reports Women's Wear Daily, "are already viewing it as the sleeper of '75." Cinnamon Wear, a sprightly New York fashion house, has filled 10,000 orders for its lower-priced ($45 to $50) jumpsuits since last spring; Saks stores across the U.S. have sold...
...member of the 1930's Communist Party USA would have branded Harrington a "social facist." But the problem is more complex. Harrington is tired of being on the outs--maybe all those eighty-three-delegate conventions, all those years as the object of scorn of mainstream American politicians, have gotten to him--now he wants to go to New York City and have Messrs. Udall, Jackson, Harris and Bayn petition for support next year. Maybe he believes that that is what an effective socialist movement is all about...
...shareholders; but the effect was to give Davis, who is trustee of the foundation as well as chairman of the company, the power to vote down anyone who dared object to anything...