Word: aime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Independent Study. Mental effort is another matter. Says Dean Hoopes, sometime English teacher at Harvard, Yale and Stanford: "To a degree probably unmatched anywhere in this country, the students will find themselves responsible for their own education through independent study. Our aim is to render the professor dispensable at the earliest possible moment. Our university is a place of the mind, and the mind is an activity, not a repository. In this spirit we invite students to come and learn with...
...scientists know how to build such a guidance system, but they are frustrated. U.S. first-stage rockets do not have the power to launch toward the moon an object big enough to carry guidance apparatus. So the aim of U.S. moon probers has to be right from the start-like firing a rifle bullet from a moving platform at a distant and moving target. This is much harder than the Russian system, which is more like navigating a ship into harbor...
Since the end of World War I, the principal aim of U.S. foreign policy, says Ways, has been to ensure the nation's survival. This limiting policy kept Franklin Roosevelt from moving ships and planes on Pearl Harbor eve because he thought the people would not understand warlike actions until "the aggressor" had struck the first blow. It led the U.S. to fight World War II under "the shamefully aimless policy banner of unconditional surrender,'' without any postwar aims. Today, as in Hitler's day. the U.S. is up against an enemy with a purpose, plan...
...work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the object it may represent. When a work has this powerful "vitality, we do not connect the word beauty with it. Beauty, in the later Greek or Renaissance sense, is not the aim in my sculpture. -Henry Moore...
...sense, a socialist lecturing to atheists on political economy is every bit as much preaching to them about the salvation of their souls--propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem--as a priest addressing the faithful about the Incarnation, Crucifixion, and Resurrection. The aim is not heaven, however, but utopia--and a false utopia will no more do than a tinsel paradise would have sufficed for the martyrs and the saints. To atheists, politics is religion; rival schemes of worldly order, are, literally, conflicting eschatologies; and the contemporary sense of individual political impotence is as awful a burden as Luther...