Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosive housing shortage (TIME, Dec. 1), Sir Keith ("Smoky Joe") Joseph, 44, who worked his way up in the family's building business from hod carrier to director, is a fellow of All Souls, Oxford (and married to an American, Hellen Guggenheimer). Macmillan emphasized the government's aim to expand Britain's health services by bringing into his Cabinet Health Minister Enoch Powell, 49, a blunt, brilliant scholar and poet who was a full professor of Greek at 24, a wartime brigadier...
...alternative, C.E.D. advocates what it calls an "adaptive approach"-farm policies that work along with market forces instead of against them, and that aim toward an eventual free market in agriculture. The essential fact to be faced, argues C.E.D., is that with present high levels of farm productivity, more labor is engaged in agricultural production than the market demands-in short, there are too many farmers. To solve that problem, C.E.D. offers a program with three main prongs...
...solution in A Change of Heart: to substitute "you." The device is hardly revolutionary, as any reader of syndicated Sports Columnist Jimmy Cannon knows (You are Sugar Ray. Your legs are wobbly, etc.). But through it Butor gains a considerable advantage over non-you writers in achieving another aim of the Neo-Realists-to inspire in the reader not sympathy for the central character, but a kind of empathetic identification with...
...predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning "the depths of one's ignorance." Demos abhorred specialization, the cult of knowing more about less...
...committee wants the college to set up its own houses and eating halls among the lovely, shaded streets of Williamstown, Mass. It cannily figures that many of the fraternities will be forced either to sell or rent their $100,000 houses to the college. The aim: "A campus where education, in its broadest sense, would take place everywhere and at all times...