Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Since the publication this fall of a translation of Humanisme et Terreur, a book scarcely available till now even in French, we are better able to locate the sharp edge of Merleau-Ponty's perception. The immediate object evoking his response was Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon . This account of the Moscow trials of the 1930's. presented as fiction, appeared in 1946. Along with his argumentation in The Yogi and the Commissar. Koestler's novel was taken as the expression, and for some, the justification of disillusion and inwardness, a mood then pervasive among Western intellectuals...
...picked one of its best selections as the first song, realizing the psychological benefits of a good start. And one of the reasons that it can be considered such a good trick is that Sha Na Na has succeeded in closely imitating the Eals. That is the object. When Jay and the Americans record an old time, they try to give it that Jay and the American sound. This invariably worsens the original...
...land. He shows the earth veiled in blue boundlessness at haying time. Then in the fall comes the sacrifice of her apples, her grapes and human fruits as well. The herd plods home. A body dangles from a gibbet on a hill. Reality was his subject, and truth his object. Yet these paintings are not finickily meticulous, as are those of Burgundian miniaturists. Rather, they are painted with a panache and freedom that, centuries later, the Impressionists were to rediscover...
...charged, though Miss Slavin thought they were known to the Administration. For the most part these people were new to radical polities. Why wouldn't the Dean not want to charge all those he possibly could? The University realizes that if it charged too many, the students community would object. Instead the radicals are kicked out in small groups, and others are given stiff warnings so that they will be suspended after the next demonstration...
...social catalogue of the times. Not in this appealing first novel. Author Wolff, Newsweek's book editor, invokes Freeman and his long-suffering family with subtlety. Their relations with one another, it turns out, are also bad debts. His wife Ann, sexually and emotionally little more than an object of Freeman's consumption, has left him. His son Caxton, a conniving p.r. flack for a top political candidate, helps support his father-primarily because of the embarrassment the old man could cause by showing up in Washington. Freeman's cousin Gerrish, a money-mad but bumbling lawyer...