Word: objects
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...research section, the camera's purpose is to test the resolving power (fine-grainedness) of photographic films, plates and papers. It may never be used for practical microfilming. It is too hard to focus, and it must be shielded from even faint vibration by enclosing it and the object to be photographed in a heavy metal cylinder suspended by springs. If a stray speck of dust wanders onto the film it might blot out half a book...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology, determined the next morning that the starlings were killed about the time the ill-fated plane crashed into Winthrop Bay. After examining remains of the birds, Paynter could ascertain that they died late in the afternoon, that they were hit by some powerful object, and that they were on the airport runway...
Radcliffe deans may veto the suggestion because they think the girls' bedrooms are too small and too messy for entertaining. They may easily point out how unfitting it would be for girls in curlers and wrappers to wander around the corridors of an open house. Further, some girls may object that men spoil the peace and quiet...
...Abbott objects to repertory theater on professional grounds. "I don't believe you can put on a good play that way. I believe in type casting, you see, and you can't type cast in repertory. People like it because they think it's arty." He does not, however, object to Off-Broadway, although "it will never take the place of Broadway because the two standards are so different. I don't include the Phoenix Theater in this." About the future of the theatre, George Abbott feels pleased. "American theater is the best in the world now. We have...
...pure idol worship, with a Platonic ring to it. In Aesthetics and History, B.B. further explains that an art object is life-enhancing because it shows us a visual, but also, more profoundly, a spiritual ideal towards which we cannot fail to strive. That is, if we can train ourselves to view such art "with sympathy and understanding...