Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
West Berlin's anti-Communist press called the treaty "treason." The Western Allies ignored the agreement. The U.S. did not object to the return of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia-it did condemn the brutal expulsion of its German inhabitants, most of whom now crowd Western Germany...
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...
...Klement Gottwald, chairman of the Communist Party, or Prime Minister Antonin Zapotocky. (While both men seem to hold undisputed authority, it has been rumored that Moscow does not completely trust them.) The entire population is covered by a secret police network, fed by informers among the party members. Chief object of police persecution is the middle class, about 20,000 to 30,000 of whom are now in forced labor camps. New camps are now being built...