Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgotten. After the national conventions, he was generally considered to be trailing. But in his campaign he began aggressively, continued aggressively and finished aggressively. It was this that gave him the edge in the four television debates against Nixon. Republican Nixon had planned his campaign too carefully, with the aim of building up toward a last-minute surge. In the final week of the campaign Nixon almost certainly closed the gap between himself and Kennedy-but it was too late with too little...
Peter D. Livingston '62, President of the HRLU, said Dean Bundy's views were valuable but "dry" and representative of State Department opinion. The aim of the petition, Livingston explained, is precisely to remind the government that "sentiment exists which is opposed to the course the U.S. has been taking...
...both irritating and sentimental when he tries to give art for art's sake a religious mystique. Art to him is an "anti-destiny," man's only means of asserting himself in a meaningless universe. He equates sacred and profane works of art by arguing that both aim at "defeating the tyranny of Time": though Vermeer "had no intention of imparting to his Maidservant that morsel of eternity which the Egyptian sculptor imparted to his Zoser, he may well have wished his picture of this girl to enter into a world akin to that of the Pharaoh...
...college will not survive unless it can find a separate purpose in society. Even if it devotes itself to the education of citizens, rather than the employment and production of scholars, it will only succeed if the universities also recognize that teaching of teachers is as important an aim as the increase of knowledge...
...faculties. By the same token, there will be little hope until small colleges, and perhaps university colleges, recognize that research and teaching are not only different, but often independent, and in a manpower shortage, antithetical. If liberal education is to survive at all, colleges must also learn that the aim of education is to produce not scholars...