Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Destructive Element, published in 1936, Spender argues that the greatest good an artist can accomplish is to "discover a system of values that are not purely subjective and individualistic, but objective and social." For him a political movement that embodies truth, as he believed the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War did, serves the highest purposes of art through its expression in poetry. Spender believed at the time that ideally a poet could awaken the public consciousness and, by shedding light on a true, moral system of values, could perhaps influence the course of history--in this case, away...
...What specifically would you hope to accomplish in policy toward South Africa, the Middle East and Asia...
...said that your approach to reorganizing the Government would be to ask Congress for executive authority to accomplish the changes, subject to congressional veto later on. How soon will you ask Congress for that authority...
...rise and fall of ethics instruction in universities. From there, Bok finds various ways of answering an emphatic yes to the essay's title question. Bok argues that courses in ethics can be integrated into the curriculum of colleges and professional schools. These courses, he writes, can accomplish three objectives: they can help students become more alert in discovering the moral issues that arise in their own lives, they can teach students to reason carefully about ethical issues and they can help students clarify their moral aspirations...
Harvard Social Psychologist Abraham Zaleznik, 52, who wrote a working paper on the development of leadership, noted that in many leaders there is a "cleavage between himself and the outer world." This creates in him "a demand that he or she accomplish something different or special." But Zaleznik conceded that the result could be destructiveness as well as great achievement...