Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peacefully channeled, results in totalitarianism and dictatorship. As a lecturer at Harvard and at Smith College, Kohn struggled "to get people excited over the right things. People need excitement, so they turn to Marilyn Monroe. Or they turn to storm troopers or to Stakhanovism, and these we must object...
...from shore. But once on the lake, Antonio begins rocking the boat spasmodically, pathetically slapping at his wife with an oar, muttering all the while, "An American tragedy, An American tragedy." There is more here than a comic allusion to Dreiser's novel. Saura has finally defined the object of his attacks, for The Garden of Delights is indeed an American tragedy, the tragedy of a stagnating political consciousness confronted with grotesque images of its past...
...kidnapers' intention had been to embarrass their government, they could count the operation a spectacular success. But if their chief object had been to collect the $400,000 ransom that they had demanded, the crime clearly had not paid. At no point was there any inclination by Turkish or U.S. authorities to hand over the money. Their attitude reflects a growing determination to discourage future kidnapings rather than protect unfortunate captives...
...what of those young men who feel that way only about the war in Viet Nam, rather than all wars in general? Last week, in a long-awaited decision, the Supreme Court held 8 to 1 that conscientious objection is an all-or-nothing proposition. It does not exempt those, however sincere, who object to some wars but not others...
...photograph can only capture an object; a drawing can liberate it. That phenomenon was not lost on Walt Disney, whose cartoons reveal a freedom noticeably absent from his "live" comedies. Nor is it lost on Chuck Jones, perhaps the foremost observer of the Disney fun factory. Scenarist-Director Jones, illustrator of many a Bugs Bunny and creator of Roadrunner, is the animating force behind The Phantom Tollbooth, his first full-length feature. It is based on Norton Juster's ten-year-old classic juvenile novel...