Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NINE YEARS HAVE gone by since the death of T.S. Eliot, yet the fascination so widespread during his lifetime has hardly subsided. While few men have been the object of so much respectful scrutiny, so much speculation about the meaning of every word they have written, equally few have been so bitterly resented. Even now, incompatible reactions continue to thrive. With them swells the horde of over one thousand books (and counting) on Eliot--biographies, criticism, memoirs, recollections, analyses. T.S. Matthews's Great Tom is one more goose from this gaggle, peddling no easy answers to the Eliot enigma...
...Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Judge Sirica ordered that all seven men appear before him this Saturday to be arraigned and to plead to the charges. Trials normally are scheduled to begin within 60 days after indictment, although delays can be sought by either defenders or prosecutors. Though defense attorneys may object, the prosecution hopes to try the seven together. Sirica assigned himself to preside over the case...
...more than ten years we have been swamped in a glutinous flow of propaganda about art as investment. It oozes from every crack in our visual culture and its molds proliferate on every class and kind of object, from medieval ivories to Dogon totems, from a sepia drawing by Rembrandt to a Deruta pot or a Motherwell collage. There is practically no work of art immune to it, and its effects on the perception of art have been, in general, disastrous. The problem is not simply that art costs money; it always has. Peter Wilson, the genial and astute entrepreneur...
Seasoned balloonists are always prepared for emergency landings and generally travel with an extra bottle of wine or a six-pack to placate property owners who object to having a giant bag of hot air settle on their land. Farmers are the most difficult to handle, explains Balloonist Alice Megaro, because "pigs and horses get very upset-though cows couldn't care less." A few find it cheerful to carry a supply of marijuana. Noted one aeronaut as he floated placidly above Albuquerque: "At this altitude, you only need half a joint...
...think that a lot of the underpinnings of the government have been ripped loose, not just because of the energy or economic crisis but by the growing feeling that there is just nothing anymore that is able to perform the function of standing fast and being the subject or object of respect or inspiration...