Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About the Sergeant." Sitting on the roadside and munching their cold rations, the G.I.s discussed the battle. Some meager loot-a few Russian Tommy guns and occasional pistols-was the object of interest. Three G.I.s in a jeep posed grandly for a Signal Corps photographer, with a North Korean flag taken from a fallen enemy. But G.I.s had found, in the pockets of dead Korean Reds, all too many reminders that the Reds, for their part, had looted the American dead. One G.I. said wryly: "Every time I hit one of those bastards, I get a fresh package of Lucky...
Last January, Malik had walked out of the Council when Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang of Nationalist China took the chair. Said Malik then: "I object to any ruling emanating from a person who represents nobody . . . This [is] not a meeting, but a parody of a meeting...
...Pigeons are shy of any moving object. If the rubber garter snakes had wriggled, the pigeons would not have come near them. An inflated paper sack tied where the breeze can move it will keep the pigeons away...
What is the object of a novel? "The non-poetic statement of a poetic truth." At what point does the novelist get his perceptions about his characters? "In the course of the actual writing of the novel . . . The novelist is in the same position as his reader. But his perceptions should be always just in advance." What is the novelist's-or any writer's-object? "To whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point...
Manhattan's huge Metropolitan Museum confronts the strong-legged visitor with almost every sort of art object, from Egyptian soup spoons to a colonial American sugar cutter. But critics have often accused the Met of being overcool to 20th Century U.S. painting. Last week the Met answered its critics by putting on exhibit 200 of the best paintings from its collection of U.S. art since...