Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual strivings, academic abandon does what the course system sets out to do, and in this respect, the two ideals meet. Insofar as a course is not simply a set of requirements, but a jumping-off point, it fulfills its aim. When this ideal is lost, however, academic abandon arises, and from its style of self-evaluation, the college has lessons to learn...
Plus & Minus. President Kennedy had plainly and publicly let it be known that his main aim was to size up Khrushchev, to take the Russian's personal measure as the U.S.'s mightiest cold war adversary. But the proposition carried with it the fact that Khrushchev at the same time would be taking measure of President Kennedy and, through...
Values Needed. Marxists, says Schaff, must work out a system of morality on a "scientific" basis rather than accept something like the Ten Commandments because it is the will of God. A typical "scientific" criterion: one should aim for "the greatest possible happiness of the large masses-only in this way may one implement the desire for personal happiness." What if organizational discipline-the state-requires an action that the individual believes to be morally wrong, that is, against "the greatest possible happiness of the masses...
...according to Kennan, was World War I. Following the military deadlock of the fall of 1914, he says, there should have been a compromise peace. For total victory was impossible, due to the fact that modern warfare is too blunt and undiscriminating an instrument for the accomplishment of any aim other than mass destruction...
...business at all," the president of the Commission of the European Economic Community declared. "We are in politics...Our aim is to rid Europe of the crippling anomalies of the past;...our goal is a United States of Europe...