Word: objective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Added Sir Leigh Ashton, director of London's Victoria & Albert Museum: "After all, painters have always sought to make an object.Very often they have taken a subject too; but if only this mythical layman could be persuaded instead of looking at the subject to look at the object [the painting itself], he might then be able to appreciate . . . difficult pictures...
...could still write to his best friend's wife: "You have drawn me, dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...
Back in 1946, the United Nations decided that they had seen enough of Franco's peculiar brand of savagery. His government, they said, was the essence of German and Italian fascism and the U.N. passed a resolution advising its members to withdraw their diplomatic missions. The object of this was either to tame Franco or bounce him out of Spain. It failed miserably. Great Britain, looking ahead to the day when Gibraltar would be vulnerable, signed a trade agreement with the dictator, and the United States was afraid that Spain would be consumed by Civil War if Franco left...
...object of his attack on the cyclical audience of more than 500 persons at the theory was Malcolm P. McNair, professor of marketing at the Business School, who first used the "inchworm" analogy in support of his conservative "do nothing" policy...
Professor Mather maintained that the object of science is to make life more efficient, not to increase human well-being...