Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dating system, were able to show that flat-browed Zinjanthropus lived some 1,750,000 years back in prehistory, the oldest manlike animal yet found. By measuring the amount of potassium 40 and its decay product, argon 40, in a digger's find, scientists conceivably can fix an object's age at 50 million years, with a probable error of less than 2%. The radioactive carbon dating system, for which Dr. Willard Libby won a Nobel Prize in 1960, reaches back for only 50,000 to 60,000 years...
...family of simple traveling actors, significantly named, Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition. The object of the knight's quest is to know--not just to hope or trust, but to know--whether there is "something beyond the darkness" before he dies...
...play, their bodies do not move but remain on the stage when Pierrot and Columbine return to rehearse from the beginning (da capo) their own skit. They decide to ignore the dead sheepherders in front of the table, for the director assures them that the audience won't necessarily object if the bodies are not removed. Pierrot and Columbine begin again the dialogue heard at the beginning. The play ends, having returned upon itself da capo. Life itself, the implication is, may be just such a cycle...
Moore, Donald Babcock Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire, described existentialism as a combination of elements from the empirical and idealist traditions. Existentialism views man both as an object in the world committed to his relationship with other objects and as an intellect estranged and withdrawn from the world...
...psychological case study flying off at unrelated tangents. Moreover, Piano Player suggests that the New Wave is carrying its own logic to absurdity. Together with the Neo-Realist school of French fiction led by Novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (TIME, July 20), the New Wave set out to give the "object" its due. In Piano Player, things-the honky-tonk piano, the hero's brass bed, an auto careening through the night-are vibrantly and almost independently alive, and man has become the lifeless inanimate object, draped over this brilliantly animated photoscape with the limp surrealistic pointlessness...