Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tosteson is willing to specify the lines of research he will pursue, he is still quiet on his plans for the Medical School. New deans who have ideas about making changes have to work slowly if they want to succeed at all. Time will show what the dean will accomplish...
Thomson's Island does seem to teach the skeptics a good deal about human nature and about what kids accustomed to a highly polarized setting beset by racial strife can accomplish, in a better environment. But for all the votes of approval from students, it is easy to forget that the program is a short-lived one. After seven weeks on the island many students begin to ask questions, to take academics more seriously, to think more carefully about their futures. But then each group returns to Southie High, back to the troopers and the fights. Most of these...
...Administration's uncertainty about what a Geneva extravaganza might accomplish besides keeping the participants in a jawjaw posture is one source of concern about the Carter plan. There is no easy way to judge the Administration's argument that the most probable alternative to Geneva is more bloodshed. Of course, talk of war is as much a part of the daily Middle East vocabulary as those diplomatic code words. Syrian President Hafez Assad's contribution last week was particularly grim. "Naturally, I don't want to negate the chances of the peace altogether," he said in Damascus. "But I still...
That is a task the police have been trying vainly to accomplish for years. Last year the cops jailed no fewer than 2,000 of Taoka's men for brief periods. "But," admits Masaru Sawada, the policeman who commanded the operation, "kicking them endlessly in the seat of the pants didn't work." The sudden turn-around in public opinion just may. The citizens of Kobe have already held three mass demonstrations, chanting "Down with the yakuza!" Taoka's men, according to police, were stunned by such a massive outburst of hostility after years of public passivity...
Thus, in its different ways, constructivism aspired to become the last universal style. Its victory would bring the history of art to an end and accomplish the millennium. The constructivist vision was art's analogue to the reigning fantasy of Marxism: the dictatorship of the proletariat. Its ideal order would wipe out nostalgia for older styles and set up a "permanent revolution" of design. Alas for the designers, this did not happen. Most of the triumphs of constructivism survived in the fictional space of painting or sculpture, theater or typography. As soon as ideal form moved into the real...