Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waldheim was also entirely acceptable to Washington, he took an early lead in the intricate balloting devised for the occasion by the Security Council. In the first round, Jakobson was second, but was stymied by a Soviet veto on the grounds, said the Russians, that their Arab friends would object to the fact that he is Jewish (a contention that the Arabs privately denied). The Soviets also vetoed another contender strongly favored by Washington: Argentina's popular Carlos Ortiz de Rozas, who, like Jakobson, gave every promise of making the most of the job and moreover came from...
Many physicians are accustomed to flexibility in their billing. Establishing the pre-freeze base prices to which increases are keyed can be an intricate business. And patients are often in no position to go comparison shopping or to object to cost...
...rules of the game preclude primaries or campaigning by the candidates. The choice is made by secret ballot, which allows a maximum of wheeling, dealing, intrigue and fine Italian double-cross. The object is to see who can garner the most votes from the other parties, since no party in Italy's fractional politics enjoys anything remotely resembling a majority. The candidate must also avoid defections from within his own party. Such defectors are known as tiratori franchi, or snipers. The game is so complex that Saragat was elected in 1964 only after 21 ballots, taken over the course...
This radical critique proved overly simplistic, for almost none of the specific research projects cited in the original proposal have materialized under the Cambridge Project. Some had ended by the time the Project was underway; some sponsors objected to the Project's DOD funding; some had never intended to participate in the project. And in fact the funding proposal, on careful rereading, only mentions them as examples of the type of research that might benefit by the project. A common argument in defense of the proposal is that writing a grant proposal to the government is a game. The object...
Like Hemingway, Graves was wounded in World War I, and, psychically at least, suffered the death of the verities that had existed prior to 1914. Like Hemingway, Graves is a romantic and a stoic who believes that one way or another love ends badly. While no single image or object can encompass the trajectory of Graves' thoughts on love, there is a Spanish drink that comes close to it. It is called the sol y sombra (sun and shadow). It comes in two layers. The top half is brandy-masculine, dry, bracing; the bottom half is anisette -sweet, insinuative...