Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Greys. Nehru staunchly defended his neutralist position. Asked at a National Press Club luncheon how he could sit on the fence in a conflict between right and wrong, he sighed wearily. "There are far too many greys in this world," he said. "A politician may aim at the right-he may even perceive the right-but he must convey that perception to others to function. A saint need not-therefore he is often stoned to death...
Although the professed goal of the Humanists "is not proselytizing," their eventual aim is to become a full-fiedged religious organisation, according to Beeuwkes. "Three hundred people might have indicated Humanist, had there been such a choice," he observed...
Early Discord. The alliance cracked at the outset in 1924 when Stalin ordered the fledgling Chinese Communists to merge with Chiang Kai-shek to further Russia's long-range aim of ousting the West from China. Only three years later, Chiang abruptly turned on his local Communist allies...
...forerunners have already arrived: 21 women artists and scholars, working part-time under Mary Bunting's new Institute for Independent Study, which aim to give talented women all the facilities they need to work for a year on some consuming project that marriage interrupted. All women with a doctorate or "equivalent in achievement," the new Associate and Affiliate Scholars get up to $3,000 and all of Harvard-Radcliffe to work in. Their fields range from archaeology, law and philosophy to painting, poetry and psychiatry. When she announced the idea last fall, Mary Bunting was startled at the response...
...depravity with vigor but no consistency, registering at different times belligerence, shy embarrassment, prosperous self-satisfaction, artiness, guilt, and a well-practiced sinister leer. Last week it was artiness; he would like nothing better than to be put out of business, he said-in fact Olympia's sole aim has been to batter down the bastions of censorship and make the world safe for experimental literature. Supporting this seven-eighths hypocrisy, Girodias points loftily to a one-eighth truth: both Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man are works of high merit...