Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less than 3,000 ft.) where sunlight barely penetrates. These waters are the hunting ground of fish with eyes that point permanently upward. What they normally see is the last faint trace of sunlight, which looks like a dim blue ceiling. When they see a dark and edible-looking object silhouetted vaguely against the ceiling above, they dart up and grab...
...Amid the fragrance of incense-burning reeds, yellow-robed priests chanted from sunrise to midnight, laymen gazed in awe, and weeping women held children up to see it all. On the altar, inside a crystal urn, which in turn was encased in a bouquet-flanked glass chest, lay the object of their reverence-a charred piece of flesh. Over it a hand-lettered sign announced: "The Eternal Heart of High Priest Quang...
...differences between the summer Harvard and the winter Harvard must be mentioned, but they should not be dwelt upon. The Charles River, for example. At all other times of the year it is a delight to the contemplative soul, but in the summer it becomes a poignant object lesson in the evils of locating large factories near bodies of water. The Yard, for another example. In the winter it annually gives birth to a new generation of Harvard Men. In the summer, to the horror of old Harvardians, it quarters hundreds of girls who blithely desecrate the Hallowed Ground. Lamont...
...ABOLISH ELECTORAL VOTES ALTOGETHER. Under a proposal by New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, among others, the President would be directly elected by the overall national popular vote. Most Democrats oppose this plan, and many conservatives object that by depriving the states of all significance in presidential elections, the Keating plan would weaken the already battered federal system...
...Florida-where agency shops are not strictly prohibited by law-had the right to interpret the state's right-to-work law to mean that the agency shop is illegal. The Supreme Court thus said, in effect, that agency shops are legal only in states that do not object to them-which at present means only Indiana among right-to-work states...