Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coming into the Country, John McPhee paces about his small, comfortable office just above a bank on the main drag of his home town, Princeton, N.J. He is on the verge of another project-and apprehensive. Directly across the street sits Princeton University's Firestone Library, the object of McPhee's window gazing. With 13 books to his credit in the past twelve years, the author seems determined to keep the neighboring library cataloguers working nights. "A great stream of ideas goes by," McPhee says, turning from the window. "The problem is how to pick one out that...
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE...
That Obscure Object of Desire is Buñuel's free-flowing meditation on Mathieu's fall from bourgeois grace, and like so many films by this great surrealist director, it is art of the most subversive kind. Buñuel wants the audience to see the world as he ultimately forces Mathieu to see it-as an irrational state where logic is a worthless tool. In Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist...
...poem is a one-of-a-kind, heart-made object. To make one right takes a great deal of silence: also hearing nothing but one's own voice. Poetry exacts its measure of pain, but that is not to be confused with anguish. Anguish is what has obsessed many of our best-known "confessional poets," including Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. They also expressed some joys, but in the end depression always tipped the balance. Lowell fought the dank beast throughout his life. Berryman, Plath and Sexton took their own lives when, as Rilke wrote...
Then what is "Object-Kowal," as it has been temporarily dubbed? Kowal says that his discovery "really doesn't resemble anything else we have seen," and tentatively describes the mystery object as a "miniplanet." If scientists decide that it can indeed qualify as a planet, Kowal, in keeping with astronomical tradition, will be accorded the honor of proposing its permanent name. He already has a name in mind. But for now he is keeping it secret, saying only that it is "based on traditional mythology...