Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some occasions, the U.S. hunters pounce on the Soviet sub in what the Navy euphemistically calls "informal exercises." The object of the chase is to give the Soviet submarines a healthy respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system...
...DESIGN Object Lesson in Beauty When future archaeologists excavate the ruins of Los Angeles and New York, they are more likely to judge the 20th century's standards of beauty by shards of Corning Ware, martini mix ers and stainless-steel subway turnstiles than by whatever fragments of painting and statuary survive. Yet the average American takes the artifacts of every day use for granted. He rarely appre ciates the well-designed objects and manages to ignore the ugly ones...
...front-page news story in Tuesday's CRIMSON [on 'The Double Helix'] is reasonably accurate, although I might complain of a couple of direct quotations made out of context. Nor can I object in general to the tenor of the editorial which appears in Wednesday's CRIMSON. But the editorial is in some parts definitely unfair and inaccurate...
Predictions from Trivia. Spaniards have turned Franco's long refusal to name his successor into a national guessing game. Its object is to predict-by attributing great significance to acts of meaningless trivia-when, if ever, Franco will restore the monarchy, and to whom, if anyone, he will give the crown. Franco plays the game, too, by scattering contradictory clues, and last week he was playing it with obvious relish. He allowed Spain's monarchists to organize a mass rally to greet Queen Victoria Eugenia at the airport, but restricted TV coverage to a 17-second film strip...
Eleanor Bron as the object of Moore's affections is quite accomplished in foiling the series of attempts Moore makes to win her Miss Welch provides her ample support as one of Cook's seven deadly sins, Lust...