Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to the private is to G. David Schine '49, the former unpaid consultant to the McCarthy committee and the object of the present controversy...
...Have a Right to Object." In crossexamination, McCarthy bided his time, feeling his way. Then, with ten minutes to go before the lunchtime recess, he pounced, not on the witness but on Samuel Reber, the general's brother and former Deputy U.S. High Commissioner in Germany. Joe wanted to know if General Reber was aware that his brother "repeatedly had attacked" Cohn and Schine and had them shadowed while they were on their sleuthing expedition through Europe last year. General Reber said he had not known it and, in any event, it would not have affected his testimony...
Counsel Jenkins broke in with objections to McCarthy's line of questioning. The hearing room grew tense; spectators in the rear stood on tiptoe. Could Jenkins, untried in the Washington jungle, accomplish the feat of cutting Joe McCarthy off? Not without a struggle. Joe insisted on his right to show "prejudice" on the part of the witness. Samuel Reber, he said, had made "vicious attacks" on Cohn and Schine. That brought Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan, as spiny and tough as any razorback, into the dispute. Said McClellan: "You are giving testimony. I have a right to object...
...into action like a task force. From the nearest of 28 Wells offices, a Wells representative telephones a group of church leaders an invitation to lunch. The lunch is "complimentary," and the informal job of persuasion that the Wellsman does over coffee is known as the "Complimentary Conference." Its object is to explain the "Wells Way" and to convince the churchmen that Wells does not go in for high-pressure methods, just efficiency...
...miracle and their learning, shallow as it is, approaches the profound. Bouvard and Pecuchet are loyal friends, and for Flaubert, friendship is a virtue. Therefore, although these two heroes are the vehicle for some of the author's bitterest comments on the bourgeoisie, they are not the only object of his tirade. There is something more...