As for Nathan Bogle — years ago the object of Leah's schoolgirl crush — he has become a shady sort of fellow, plagued by bad luck and living on the street.
The "illusion of individuality" operates at two levels: First, the universal level of the ego, the constructed "I" which is a developmental imperative in the early years, yet the object of unlearning in later years in many traditions (particularly Buddhist); and the other, socio-economic, level of western individualism.
Tiao and her sister are befriended by an older girl, an illegitimate child whose shocking "decadence" — in the form of painted lips and curled bangs — becomes, fittingly for the contradictions of the Maoist years, the object both of mockery and of envy.
For Mr. Obama, whose presidency has, for more than a year, been the object of both adulation from supporters and vilification from critics, the speech harked back to his campaign days, where he sought to portray himself as a unifier.
I was 16 years old, but the object of my affection was no boy, fickle, impermanent, undeserving of my sleepless nights.
"I am glad that our relations, which have lasted already for 50 years, were not the object of serious changes," Mr. Putin said.
About 30,000 troops and police officers have been deployed to protect the pilgrims, who in past years have been the object of attacks by insurgents bent on sowing sectarian strife.
While many ancient individuals, known and unknown, contributed to the subject, none equaled the impact of Euclid and his Elements of geometry, a book now 2,300 years old and the object of as much painful and painstaking study as the Bible.
We can accept Jefferson's statement made fifty years later that the object of the Declaration was to be "an appeal to the tribunal of the world" -- that "decent respect to the opinions of Mankind" invoked in the Declaration itself.
As a 20-year-old and the object of Howard Hughes's attentions, Jane Russell was force-fed into a series of low-cut dresses for The Outlaw (1943).
