Word: objectness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What did Eeyore lose? Who was using the lost object for what when he found...
Unlike much recent American fiction, Fat City is neither a foil for intellectual exegesis, nor a didactic object lesson for humane politicos or members of the Woodstock Nation. It is simply a novel about two impoverished white boxers whose lives touch only for an instant, but whose careers frighteningly parallel each other. By remaining true to his California milieu, by neither moralizing about his characters' profession or condescending to their way of life, Gardner lays bare some ugly truths about an America which closes off possibilities for tragedy or greatness-a society which neglects the mass of its individuals, leaving...
...this year's program. Taylor stated, "Our object is to find the brother whom the regular admissions process doesn't even begin to touch. The Schools Committees of the Harvard Clubs are lily-white, and many committee members are just plain scared to journey into schools on our side of town. The end product is that so much of our people's genius is left at 18 or 19 nodding on stoops or over-represented in the front lines of Vietnam...
However, experts including Tyson Royal Roberts, Harvard's Assistant Curator of Fishes, dispelled all belief that the object at Mannhill was a sea monster...
Radcliffe deans may veto the suggestion because they think the girls' bedrooms are too small and too messy for entertaining. They may easily point out how unfitting it would be for girls in curlers and wrappers to wander around the corridors of an open house. Further, some girls may object that men spoil the peace and quiet...