Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposed aim of the Freshman Smoker is to bring the entire class together to "get acquainted". With a place so far down on the school calendar, however, the Smoker does little to fulfill this purpose. After six months, the freshmen have certainly formed friendships and cliques, and an evening of beery waves and determined handshakes will not have much to contribute...
...orientation Smoker" early in the Fall is therefore a wise one. Getting acquainted is a problem of the weeks of adjustment, a problem of the first term, not the second. Only if the Smoker takes place in the first weeks of the school year can the affair realize its aim by introducing freshmen to their classmates...
Unlike the old stereotype of the surgeon whose one aim was to wield the knife, Dr. Moore (who specializes in abdominal surgery) and the dozens of like-minded colleagues who dominated the surgeons' meeting last week will never use it if they think it can be avoided. And, except in emergency, they will never use it without careful consultation with the patient's physician, an interview with the patient himself, and a full-team study of the results of many laboratory tests made...
...hedgehogs NATO planners mean mobile defense units which would be free to dig in almost anywhere, surrounded by their own armor and infantry perimeters and by minefields. Aim of the hedgehogs is to break the enemy mass and to direct it into channels. The defenders would counterattack with atomic weapons, harry the canalized enemy laterally from the hedgehogs, blast him from...
Author Wilson seems to see his novel as a modern morality play. In its terms, vulgarity is evil, good taste is grace, "to let life bore you" is the cardinal sin, and no one is ever saved from anything. His crisp prose style and his deft aim with the acid of satire keep his novel from being pointlessly sordid. But as the parade of homosexual flirts, pimps and spivs crosses its pages, it becomes uncertain whether Author Wilson is exploring the lower depths of England or of Hell...