Word: aime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tomorrow about 50 students are expected to attend preliminary meetings on the top floor of Holyoke Center. The organizers of the study decided that, before they break down into subcommittees, they should try to define a model of what they want Harvard to become. This weekend's meetings will aim for a consensus on the ideal college the project should seek, they said...
...unhorse Johnson might, in fact, confirm everyone's faith in American political fourflushing. "It's obviously Bobby," said one White House aide. "McCarthy has no burning conviction. He's not leading a peace movement." The remark reflected a widely held conspiracy theory that McCarthy's aim is to unite dissident Democratic support in the primaries and then throw that support to Robert Kennedy some time before next summer's Democratic Convention. Texas Governor John Connally, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's, called McCarthy "a stalking horse, a catalyst for dissidents...
...aim: to open up 5,000,000 acres of the country's richest land for colonization, thus doubling the total amount of national acreage under cultivation. Then Belaunde got the idea of extending the road beyond Peru, and persuaded Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay to join in. "We have lost the habit of thinking on a grand scale," he said, "of conceiving works that, like the Panama Canal, change the geography of a continent. Nature is our enemy, and nature can be overcome...
...little more than pale reflections of the the ater or the novel. The New Cinema has developed a poetry and rhythm all its own. Traditionally, says Cahiers Editor Jean-Louis Comolli, "a film was a form of amusement - a distraction. It told a story. Today, fewer and fewer films aim to distract. They have be come not a means of escape but a means of approaching a problem. The cinema is no longer enslaved to a plot. The story becomes simply a pretext...
...prodigious Victorian, one of a long line of self-confident zealots whose faith and energies gave them a stature that the modern mini-man can only wonder at. A dozen specialist scholars -in politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class. He was concerned with the deep discrepancy between the dark satanic mills of industrial England and the idyl (real or imagined) of rural life hedged in tradition. It is a discrepancy still known in 20th...