Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of that foaming frenzy is Coors Banquet Beer, brewed from the waters of the 70 to 80 springs around Golden, Colo., 15 miles west of Denver. Unlike most U.S. beers, Coors contains no preservatives or stabilizers and is not pasteurized; if left unrefrigerated and allowed to get warm, it will spoil in a week. It is probably the only beer that is kept cold from the brewery to the customer. But its lack of additives and its brewing process greatly enhance its taste. For many connoisseurs, Coors is the Château Haut-Brion of American beers; to their...
...world is dangerously imperfect. There are no doctors, and so Comte dies of routine appendicitis. He becomes an object of mythic veneration, a Mao Tse-tung of the new age. In a post script - one has seen it coming a hun dred pages away - a successor notes that his fellow survivors have voted "that practical research into the manufacture of .36 rifle bullets should be instituted immediately and given top priority." And so on. But post-apocalypse society is fun while it lasts...
...that as it may," continued the Secretary, "we find ourselves in the center of a profound and baffling mystery." I suddenly became the object of his suspicious concern...
...everyone, however. Many people who got the book as a Christmas present found it juvenile, boring or simplistic. Psychiatrists, too, object to its superficiality. Many of them complain that it says too little about unconscious motivation and that it implies that a few hours of reading will substitute for years of psychotherapy. But generally it is regarded as a harmless way to invest $4.95. Says David Orlinsky, a University of Chicago psychologist: "It's cheaper than tranquilizers. Why shouldn't publishers as well as pharmaceutical houses make money...
...water, sport silicon skins to protect themselves against deadly sunburn, and hibernate for thousands of years at a stretch. Sagan also contemplates astro-engineered civilizations so far advanced that their accomplishments would seem to us "indistinguishable from magic." He can easily imagine intergalactic, rapid-transit routes where "an object that plunges down a rotating black hole may re-emerge elsewhere and elsewhen-in another place and another time...