Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Publishing, which puts out elementary and high school books. Crowell-Collier won control of the Macmillan Co. to create a $60 million publishing complex. Henry Holt, Rinehart and John C. Winston joined forces to create the leading science and language text publishing house, raising sales to $31 million. The aim of all is to get ready for the market looming in the '60s, during which total industry sales of textbooks seem likely to double...
...general aim is a good one, for more and more of the College's intellectual activities have gravitated toward the Houses in the past few years. The expansion of Honors tutorial, the attempts to give "pass candidates" greater academic opportunities and this year's new House tutorials have made the House the center of a student's intellectual life. Too often sections provide little stimulation, or else a student having interests in many fields lacks intellectual contact outside his own. Too many students see the Associates in the Dining Halls only at an unapproachable "tutor's table." Increased contact between...
Plank and Gray yesterday stated that the aim of their joint meetings is to bring both disciplines to bear on areas where they are closely related...
This pathetic revolution against revolution is doomed, of course, and Seryozha, betrayed by his girl, winds up in the same labor camp as Dr. Rabinovich. But he devoutly keeps his faith in "The Aim." Each day Seryozha insists that he and his friends pool the rations, only to divide the bread equally all over again in the evening. It is, he explains with mad Russian logic, the principle that matters. And it is indeed the Russianness of The Trial Begins, rather than its prickly polemics, that most impresses the Western reader...
...Russia. Unlike Doctor Zhivago, which buried the revolutionary dead with funerary narrative, this book crackles with questions addressed to the living. It puts the Grand Interrogators under total Interrogation, and makes clear that the most feared heretics against the Communist system are those who take seriously its original visionary aim of universal happiness...