Word: objectional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article "Harpin' Boont in Boonville" [Feb. 7] is an excellent object lesson in the origins of language. Semanticists and some religious scholars like to pretend that language was handed down to us by God, or that the Greeks, Romans or Hebrews had some magical formula for the creation of living language...
...that guy over there?" whispers one frat man to another. "He scored 50 times before he was a sophomore." The object of this muted envy is an undergraduate operator named Paxton Quigley, who conducts a personal course in concupiscence. Quigley cracks feminine reserve the way a grind cracks books-with a dedication that borders on frenzy. Yet, according to a breezy little movie called 3 in the Attic, he is also a prime target for a fate worse than dearth...
Christo's other wrappings are likewise intended to lay bare an abstract truth-or truths-about the object swathed. "We never think of things in abstract terms," he observes, "because we are living persons and we see everything before us." By everything, he means surfaces, and in seeking to separate surface appearance from abstract reality, Christo often produces a work that is literally all package...
IMPOSSIBLE OBJECT by Nicholas Mosley. 219 pages. Coward-McCann...
Nicholas Mosley, whose work has been adapted for films by Harold Pinter, is a case in point. His novels (Accident, Assassins) are explicitly cinematic. In Impossible Object, he begins with the appropriately open-ended notion that "society used to provide the difficulties that made love exciting and romantic. But in today's world, men and women must now create the difficulties in order to perpetuate love at the level of ecstasy." The trouble is that Mosley's characters, a nameless man and woman who are married to others at the opening, create the dreariest and most passive...