Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story tells of a young man in a huge toy factory who invents a laughing doll called a flahooley. Then, by rubbing a magic lamp, he conjures up a genie who can turn out flahooleys at will. The genie soon gluts the market and becomes the object of an inflamed and rabid genie hunt, with everybody vainly trying to send him back to his native lamp...
...Stilts of Fallacy. Halfway through the book it becomes clear that Lannie and Hollingsworth are working together to force McLeod to surrender a precious "little object" stolen from the U.S. Government. From then on, in a nonstop talkalogue, Author Mailer shunts his narrative cargo off the fictional track and into an editorial tract. Using the stereotypes of the tortured confessional, the state spy, the bureaucratic machine, universal fear and insecurity, he achieves at best a small-beer Nineteen Eighty-Four. At worst, he talks like a highbrow caught with his I.Q. down...
Riffling the dead leaves of a bankrupt dream, neo-Marxist Mailer sees one faint hope, "socialist culture." This idea, which ex-Stalinist McLeod passes on to Lovett as a heritage-just before Government Agent Hollingsworth does him in-seems to be the precious "little object" the poor fellow has been nursing all along...
After the elections, the Varsity Club held an open house, complete with beer, for all freshman athletes. The object of the party was to interest the Yardlngs in varsity competition next year...
Employees there, however, object to the program, and will start picketing administration offices this Thursday. The newly formed union, a local of the Federation of University Employees Unions held a protest meeting Friday at which speakers asked all employees to "unite against our biggest enemy--Yale...