Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the key to what Ruth Gordon's play, Years Ago, lost in Hollywood is shown in the change of title. Years Ago, with its straightforward, unpretentious title was exactly that type of play: direct, pleasant nostalgia with no particular aim but a considerable degree of warmth. The film version is now called The Actress, and the mood has been changed accordingly. It is now a large-scale production. The fragile plot is pointed up to take on the broad proportions the new name implies. And since Miss Gordon's delicate material would not sharpen to that extent, the picture...
Liberace himself is not quite sure where his appeal lies, and it doesn't bother him. His aim: "To be to the piano what Bing Crosby is to the voice." Another aim: to finish his new home in Royal Oaks, Calif., where he, his brother and his mother can live, and swim in their pool, which is shaped like a grand piano viewed from the second balcony...
...most noteworthy religious experiments since World War II has been that of the French worker-priests (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950)-young priests who take jobs and live as workers, saying Mass, hearing confessions and carrying on their pastoral functions in their spare time. The long-range aim of the movement: to reach anticlerical French workingmen who have been notoriously easy prey for Communism...
...diamonds, he announced that before the end of the 20th century, "God is going to stop death." Across the room his Philadelphia sponsor, Politico Hobson R. Reynolds, who owns a cemetery and has an interest in a family undertaking business, sat fascinated. "Yes," the Prophet went on, "I aim to put undertakers, gravediggers and casket factories out of business...
...fundamental tendency of genetics and eugenics," he said, "is to influence the transmission of hereditary factors to promote that which is good and eliminate that which is bad. This ... is irreproachable from the moral point of view, but certain methods used to obtain this aim . . . are morally contestable." In other words, the good of society alone is not enough to deprive the individual of his fundamental rights. Even in cases where one or both of the partners are suffering from a hereditary disease, it is wrong to prohibit them from marrying unless one is clearly "incapable of acting...