Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nazi aim was to make Europe Judenfrei, free of Jews, by methods ranging from emigration to murder. How well they succeeded, even 15 years after their defeat in World War II, is shown by the following table compiled by the World Jewish Congress, dealing with countries once Nazi-held...
...Renaissance and Reformation gave man a new telos-"the active subjugation and transformation of nature and man." This was the combination of Renaissance humanism, oriented politically and technically, with the Calvinistic and Evangelical aim to subject the "world and mankind to the kingdom...
...gauge for measuring the influence of science, Tillich took the Greek word telos: "the inner aim of a life process." To the classical Greeks, said Tillich, man's inner aim-his telos-was "the actualization of his potentialities and the conquest of those distortions of his nature which are caused by his bondage to error and passions." This idea, common to Heraclitus, Socrates, the Stoics and the Epicureans, is still alive in the modern world in the "humanist" tradition...
...example, St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., hopes to keep its enrollment down to 300 and so will aim to reproduce itself in as many as six affiliates throughout the country. Its president has launched a $3 million drive to start a St. John's-in-California...
...English Bible. A translation of the New Testament from the original Greek by a committee of British scholars and stylists whose aim was to make the Scripture intelligible to moderns who find much of the 17th century King James version unintelligible. Inevitably flatter and occasionally banal, it is nevertheless smooth and lucid, casts new light on many an obscure passage...