Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...material needs, leaves us with a feeling of intense boredom . . . that modern civilization fails to satisfy profound needs in man?" Capitalistic society, Fromm charges, has turned men into robots who have sur rendered their freedom to machines. They suffer, he writes, from a "receptive orientation in which the aim is to receive, to 'drink in,' to have something new all the time, to live with a continuously open mouth, as it were." They can be saved only by the sane, socialist society which Fromm describes vaguely, if vibrantly...
...nuclear war would complicate exceedingly the building of a new society on the ruins left after a world conflict. After all, the aim of the working class is not to die "spectacularly," but to build a happy life. Communists cannot act like these irresponsible scribblers in their cynical gamble with human lives...
...coming to my senses." In his new work, the excesses of decoration are gone; there is a classic discipline about his models, and his emphasis is on structure. But he will continue to occupy his unique place in the public's affection, because his structures still aim to please the eye. He has declared war not only on the glass box that dominates so much new building, but also on the handcraft brutalism of some of the buildings of France's Le Corbusier (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), which have all the force in the world...
Even more important, the U.S. must convince Britain, France and Germany that it will use its nuclear deterrent in designated situations on which all four have agreed and that it will abide by its commitments through thick and thin. To achieve this aim, close and skillful consultation between the allied governments is required...
...addition to saving the lives of the condemned men, the long-range aim of the Baha'i Community will be to prevent a national or universal persecution of minor religious sects...