Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl is, of course, Chili Williams, former Conover model, polkadotted pin-up, and current object of Harvard publicity men's attention, and the play is called "Bigger Than Barnum." It is not a good play, and it will not go to New York...
From all around the pasture came the same angry bleats. Said Howard Vaughn, president of the California Wool Growers Association: "One insurmountable object is a Government which changes the rules every June and keeps talking about what it will do next in all the months between. If we are ever to get increased production we must have the confidence that government will not upset our plans and we must have some degree of certainty of profits...
...wife on an ocean crossing, the shy, religiously intellectual Croly had a challenging book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...
...office, Straight posted a sign: CONFUSE THE READER. (Object: to arouse people who say, "I don't read the New Republic because I know what it's going to say.") He hired a bevy of cartoonists, brought in a new managing editor. Some of his readers, as a result, have seen symptoms of schizophrenia in the magazine, with the young blood contrasting-if not conflicting-with such old "conservative liberals" as Bliven, Stark Young, George Soule and Malcolm Cowley...
Byron at 45. Thirteen years before Dickens' death he became obsessed by the belief that at 45 he was "capable of loving a young girl in the same idealistic whole-souled way that he had once adored Maria Beadnell." The object of his passion was fair-haired Actress Ellen Ternan, whom Dickens discovered backstage modestly weeping because her role obliged her "to show so much leg." Dickens established Ellen in a house near London. His daughter Katey wrote: "More tragic and far-reaching in its effect was the association of Charles Dickens and Ellen Ternan and their resultant...