Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slapdash stories breathtaking, the primitive jargon and stupid misspellings sidesplitting. You are awed by that $300,000 a year, rather than appalled by the discrepancy between it and the earnings of scientists, researchers, technicians and others of real achievement. It's not your Capp cover and story I object to, it's your enthusiasm over juvenile trash for grownups...
...college R.O.T.C. commanders have turned down the book "Time for Decision. Yale thought it was below the dignity of its students, and Colonel Charles P. Summerall of Harvard, professor of Military Science, "saw fit not to distribute it." The commander at Rhode Island State College was the latest to object...
...home on his motorbike along the shores of a lake in the Inverness Highlands on a moonlit winter night in 1934 when he saw the beast. "I was almost on it," said Arthur Grant later, "when a small head on a long neck turned in my direction, and the object, taking fright, made two great bounds, crossed the road and plunged into the lake...
Genesis of Galaxies. The Hoyle-Lyttleton-Bondi-Gold universe has no beginning and no end, no middle and no circumference in either time or space It is hard to start describing such an endless, begmnmgless object. One way is to imagine all of space filled uniformly with very thin hydrogen, simplest and lightest of the elements. Such a uniform gas is gravitationally unstable." Its atoms attract one another and gradually form into clouds, rather as a film of water on glass gathers into drops. The clouds, cruising through space for billions of years eventually crowd together in enormous gaseous masses...
Esther Forbes argued that escape, a favorite object of complaint, is actually a good thing. "We all need escape now and then," she said, "but what we escape into is important." A novel is predigested, selected, and orderly--and it may have a thought-provoking moral, she said...