Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Particularly significant, Calvert says, has been the shift toward international careers. Only 8% of the 5,000 Volunteers were interested in long-range careers overseas when they entered the Peace Corps. But almost one-third had this aim when they completed service, he says...
...Peace Corps begins its sixth year, its directors have apparently decided that a major shift in orientation will be needed to accomplish its aim of fermenting democratic revolutions. Rather than let the Peace Corps degenerate into an export model of the 4-H club, they are aiming at wholesale transformations of the communities in which they work. Simple idealism could never attract the kind of manpower they need. Their project requires an entire philosophy of life, a philosophy based on practicality and the value of direct experience. A Choice I Made embodies that philosophy, and at the same time...
...favored child among Corps' projects has become community development, and the aim of CD, says Frank Mankiewicz, Corps director for Latin America, "is nothing less than a complete change, reversal--revolution if you wish--in the social and economic patterns of the countries to which we are accredited." The Corps' job is to "give the people we work with an awareness of where the tools are to enable them to assert their political power...
...Britain did not interfere. Even at that, though, the Israelis seem pretty safe. As one West German rocketeer in Egypt mourns: "Our guidance systems are so unreliable that if we were to aim for Tel Aviv, it's an even bet that we'd hit Beirut...
...mark of modern art, like that of modern science, is continuous experimentation. The results often seem to aim more at style obsolescence than at great masterpieces rivaling those of the past. But as ism tumbles after ism, the greatest accolades have gone to those artists who have painted through the revolutionary styles of their times and arrived at a style uniquely their own. Few have achieved a more luxuriant signature than Henri Matisse...