Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical exercise of people-to-people diplomacy, 13 foreign envoys and their families recently took a 5,000-mile, expense-paid trailer trip across the U.S. Organized by nonprofit Travel Program for Foreign Diplomats Inc., the tour's aim was to let the visitors "get to know us, our land, our people and our institutions...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Bob takes delightfully deadly aim at such tempting targets as divorce Hollywood style, child-performers-turned-politicians and the hippie scene. He is assisted by Debbie Reynolds, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme...
Academe's massive fund drives no longer aim exclusively at new buildings and expanded facilities. Since the bigger need now is to meet annual operating costs, mainly in teachers' salaries, there is a new emphasis at many universities on setting up endowed chairs. At the same time, sophisticated benefactors have found that giving their names to a professorship is more satisfying than simply seeing them carved on the donor's plaque of a new building...
...more. Many of the objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault the viewer with the very "thingness" of the object. As shadows played across the empty surfaces, gallerygoers were invited to ponder the mysteries of life and the ultimate beauties...
This is Nat Turner's message-and Styron's. His story flows relentlessly to its collision with horror. The conspirators hack off heads as if vengeance alone were the insurrection's aim. The de fenders of slavery respond as bloodily; more than 200 Negroes, most of them innocent, die in reprisal. U.S. slavery's only true revolt vanishes into the darkness before the Civil War. "It just ain't a race made for revolution, that's all," says a court officer smugly...