Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...express the text, but project it to the audience. I don't quite know how he does it, and neither do his imitators: no matter how much their progressions sound like his, Thompson's understanding of the voice cannot be matched. The Glee Club is often foiled in its aim to get the text across by a bad setting. The singers work their hardest, but the result is ... zip. Although Friday night's texts were all in the program, it really wasn't necessary to follow them. Between the singers' crystalline diction, and Thompson's limpid settings, the words came...
...make the world safe for democracy" is nowadays often considered naive. President Kennedy spoke instead of "making the world safe for diversity." Yet the Wilsonian hope-which does not intend to impose democracy on anyone but only to create conditions in which it can live-remains a noble aim and a valid, long-range objective for American policy. The U.S. no longer insists that "real" democracy must conform to a particular version of the parliamentary or presidential system. But any meaningful definition of democracy must meet certain minimum conditions. The ancient Greeks had some careful notions about democracy, and none...
Whatever its long-range hopes for democracy, the immediate aim of U.S. foreign policy must often be simply the containment of Communism. Hence the U.S. has grown pragmatic; it has learned that order and stability, even if relatively undemocratic, can be more important in emerging nations than a premature democracy that invites chaos. Thus the U.S. officially applauded (and some say instigated) the overthrow of a hopelessly inefficient and left-wing civilian regime in Guatemala, and cheered the downfall of a left-sliding, if popularly elected, government in Brazil...
...well that he did. His gaze met that of a young conscript named Reza Bakhshabadi, who held his submachine gun at a level lower than usual. The Shah, trained in arms, was well aware of the technique of firing an automatic weapon: start shooting low and then raise your aim-if you take dead aim the kick of recoil makes shots go too high for accuracy...
...hour-long "Don Juan in Hell" scene from Man and Superman last week for TV's non-network Esso Repertory Theater. The fine hour-long performance should build the group's following just when it needs it. With a larger capacity next year in the Lyceum, the aim is to build this year's 7,500 subscribers to 20,000. At Michigan in late September the company will break in three new productions: the world première of Archibald MacLeish's Heracles, Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and the Kaufman-Hart comedy...