Word: objection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful "vitality, we do not connect the word beauty with it. Beauty, in the later Greek or Renaissance sense, is not the aim in my sculpture. -Henry Moore...
...think a film should ever not be shown at a commercial theatre or over television if certain religious or ethnic groups formally object...
...sphere of morals it seems that certain stands retain strength after the original metaphysical foundation has dissolved, for two-thirds of the Catholics who had slipped from orthodoxy objected "because of religious beliefs" to both legalized abortion and extra-marital intercourse--a surprisingly large percentage considering that a much smaller fraction of the students polled would follow suit. An even more surprising feature of this question is that some of the staunch Catholics (five in all) failed to object to certain of the practices listed in question 41, all of which are morally objectionable in the eyes of the Church...
...Mohammed." (45 per cent regarded him as divine, 40 per cent as a great prophet). Similarly when asked about sexual practices which except for birth control are regarded as evil in all Western religions, those who did not find them objectionable on religious grounds far outweighed those who did object to them. (A warning: the poll defined opposition on religious grounds as "objectionable...because of beliefs about God's commandments." This excludes secular morality, on which grounds one would suspect many more would have objected.) The most surprising result of this question was the relatively small percentage of 38 which...
...Would you object to legalized euthanasia ("mercy killing") on religious grounds...