Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attempt to defend or criticize General MacArthur since I feel that neither I nor the VAM are qualified to do so. This letter is written primarily because I resent the obviously prejudiced remarks made by a group claiming to represent the opinions of all veterans. I have no objection to any individual or group of individuals expressing their political views, but I do object to the use of the term "veterans" in making their views known publicly. We have the AMVETS, AVC, VFW, veteran bars, veteran filling stations, veteran cabs, and now Veterans Against MacArthur. When will the Veterans Committee...
...recorded his name as James Douglas Johnston, and, on directions from Big Jim, "withheld the birth of the child from press publicity." She did not complain-Big Jim was running for governor and had promised to make her the "first lady of Alabama" afterwards. She didn't even object to his campaign methods: he traveled to the "crossroads, the branch-heads and the brush arbors" with a hillbilly band, called on it to strike up a tune called "Pucker up, Honey, Jim Folsom's Comin'," and then galumphed through crowds kissing all the women...
...Their only object is to cause disruption in order to stay in the good graces of the Arab High Command, which includes the ex-Mufti and other Nazi war-criminals," he concluded...
...people who love the opera for itself . . . object to the sneering and leering of those who choose (shall I say to be charitable) to be so damn superior. . . . The singers do not "snort and bellow!" If they did they would find themselves out of a job-but quickly! And one does not attend the opera to see acting. Get that straight! One goes to hear . . . the ecstasy of the human soul in song...
...express the intimacy that should characterize classical chamber music. When played by harpsichord and violin, this intimacy is never lost. The two instruments blend into each other almost as if they were one; and the music seems to become a part of the listener's consciousness, rather than the object of his attention...