Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be no surprise if Sisco, fresh from conferences with the National Security Council, makes less headway on the diplomatic front. His object is to probe for possible areas in which U.S.-sponsored discussions on reopening the Suez Canal can be continued...
...Adolescents would be graduated a corresponding year earlier, moving on at the age of 17 to jobs, college or a year off to reconnoiter their futures. It is a proposal of such staggering simplicity that it is already meeting opposition. Teachers object that it could require them to retrain in order to teach younger children. Blue-collar parents worry that the plan would throw even more jobseekers into competition for already scarce work. In fact, however, the idea of an accelerated curriculum has been endorsed by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education (TIME, Dec. 7), and is under consideration...
...stands for object No. 82 in the catalogue of nebulae, galaxies and clusters of stars started by the 18th century French astronomer Charles Messier. NGC 253 means object No. 253 in the New General Catalogue...
THREE weeks ago, a table was sold at auction in London. It had been made in France somewhere around 1780, probably by a craftsman named Martin Carlin: a spindly, exquisite and useless object, all tulipwood and Sevres porcelain plaques, the very epitome of the court taste of Louis XVI. An Iranian oilman named Henri Sabet paid $415,800 for it and so became the owner of the most expensive piece of furniture in history...
Lost Souls. This imaginary fraudulent creature has animated a great deal of escape fiction, from Robinson Crusoe to Little Big Man. Taken lightly, he is an object of literary curiosity. Written about seriously, he is preposterous. Walkabout makes the disastrous mistake of treating an aborigine...