Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aim of the new program is to guarantee a uniform cross-section of the class in each college. Under the old system, which resembles the Harvard house plan, freshmen in groups of up to 12 could apply to any house of their choice. Invariably 60 to 70 percent of past Yale classes have bid for one of three socially elite colleges, Davenport, Calhoon, or Branford...
...occurrences. To put it bluntly, the present situation looks to us as follows: at the very moment when France at long last has at its head a young, dynamic and popular government, which has given rise to new hopes, American diplomacy is led into a kind of coalition, the aim of which is to provoke the downfall of Mendès-France...
Breaking the Crust. The essential aim of the Mendès-France revolution is to break the crust which weighs upon the French economy and hinders its free development. This crust is made up of layers of protections, subsidies and financial subterfuges. Today, the French economic machine is geared to the production rhythm of its weakest components. The state has nearly become an agency to stifle competition...
Cole Porter never wrote these lines, but he (almost) might have. They are a memorable lampoon by the late Ring Lardner of Minstrel Porter's most famous attack of heartburn. Readers-as distinct from listeners-now have an opportunity to judge the accuracy of Critic Lardner's aim. In a new book out this week, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter (selected by Fred Lounsberry-Random House; $4.50) were clamped between hard covers without so much as an ocarina accompaniment. It is a rare tribute to a lyricist, but it is also a bit of a dirty trick...
...Aimée Dubucq de Rivery (1763-1817), cousin of Napoleon's Empress Josephine, had passivity thrust upon her. Abducted by Corsairs while en route home to Martinique from a convent in Nantes, Aimée was given as a present to Turkish Sultan Abd ül Hamid I, who popped her into his harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite...