Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donen is a director of sophistication and invention whose entertainments like Charade and Two for the Road are object lessons in how to craft the kind of movies they are not supposed to be making any more-movies that are smart, funny and piquant. Because Donen's films are usually so polished, there is a tendency to think of him as a specialist in after-dinner-mint amusements, but that designation does him an injustice. It ignores the abounding vitality and brassiness of On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and It's Always Fair Weather...
...blank pistol out into the audience, frightens the women, describes instead the physiology of rape in such heated detail that tremblings because of the shots are replaced with giggles. He asks for a volunteer from the audience and proceeds to use her as what might be called a rape object. He is rather a madman...
...when one drives from Boston into Kendall Square are the new office buildings and the well-manicured shrubs on the traffic circle spelling "Welcome to Cambridge." Immediately behind this facade, however, are a few lonely old buildings and acres of barren, weed-filled ground that have been the object of a broiling ten-year controversy which still has no end in sight...
...most massive paper shuffles in Harvard's history is in progress. Under guidelines issued by Dean Rosovsky last month, House and department offices have begun to remove "material held under the assumption of confidentiality" from student files, and will ask the authors of these documents whether they would object to having them available for the perusal of students...
...before (TIME, Sept. 30), the protests were led by ministers and parents who object to texts that include passages by authors from E.E. Cummings and Sigmund Freud to Dick Gregory and Eldridge Cleaver. Under particular attack are selections that appear to challenge a literal interpretation of the Bible or are otherwise antireligious, anti-American or too violent...