Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Object of the search was the most famous child on earth, whose birth, and, up to last week, whose life were jealously guarded secrets. So successfully did his parents keep his name and face out of the Press that ignorant gossip whispered that he must be backward, deaf, perhaps defective. But four photographs of Charles Augustus had ever been made public, one of them snapped surreptitiously last summer in Maine when his parents were flying to China. Now there issued forth from Col. Lindbergh's private collection cinema films by the score. These went broadcast through the land by mail...
...fast one on the newspapers of the nation. . . . We understand that some papers are consenting to give their advertising space away in this fashion. This newspaper is not. . . . We don't think much of the anti-hoarding drive, anyway. It is too vague, too generalized . . . and its primary object is to make business for the banks. We don't see why we should GIVE space to the banks and SELL space to the automobile and radio and coal and department store people. . . . "[However] we will agree to publish Mr. Hoover's views on hoarding as free advertisements...
...small amount of nickel. The Tent. as it is called because of its peculiar shape, weighs over 36 tons. A celestial visitor almost twice as large has been dug out of a hole in South Africa. Although expeditions have been trying to discover some fragments of the object that caused the huge pit known as Meteor Crater in Arizona they have not been successful...
...these new painters, the "Surrealistes" attempt to discover a world that is objective, non-abstract, meaningful, and yet inaccessible to the camera. They depict a world of the subconscious imagination, more real than conventional reality, fantastic in so far that it is opposed to the logic of our every-day life. A pocket watch painted as an object so limp and pliable as to be used for a riding saddle, that is not abstract but it is fantastic. The "Surrealistes" of 1924 adopted Freudian psychology as a key to the subconscious world they wished to explore and depict...
...from their subjects. Dr. Counts would apparently apply his principle to democracy and, at an early age, force an implicit trust therein on the nation's youth. This method of teaching may prolong the life of an institution, but it does not lead to true thinking, a more worthy object of education...