Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aim of the "Seven Decades" survey, as its selector Selz explained it, was to reveal "rebellion and innovation, qualities vital to the life of art." And the rebellion and innovation are far from over. After the galleries closed down about midnight, those of the opening-night travelers with sufficient stamina dashed up Fifth Avenue to the Jewish Museum to catch the tail end of yet another opening. There, 42 young U.S. and British sculptors launched what may be a new art movement. The new trend is all bare pipe and unadorned steel, and it trumpets "less is more...
...takes wobbly aim at a problem created by the old law: the fact that thousands of New Yorkers seek quickie divorces in Nevada, if they can wait six weeks, or in Mexico, where a day suffices. All this evades the usual U.S. rule that divorces may be granted only by the state where one of the partners actually lives. To enforce that rule, the new law says that a New Yorker retains his domicile unless he gives up his New York residence for 18 months...
...account of this new reality or else risk losing an important part of their following. Many travelers already rely for their information on journalism, on the generally current calendars of events handed out by government tourist offices-and, above all, on a mass of excellent literary travel books, whose aim is not information but inspiration, not sightseeing but insight...
...initial balloting, Aref was the last choice. The generals wanted Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili, Iraq's Defense Minister, who favors an all-out war to exterminate Iraq's rebellious Kurdish minority. The Cabinet wanted Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, who would slow state socialism. Favoring neither aim, Nasser wanted neither man. With Amer on hand to wield Egypt's influence, the Iraqis finally settled on Aref...
...those who come to see he secretly and are afraid to tell people that they take drugs for fear of losing their jobs. "Most people," she claimed, "Would not be against you just because you take LSD." Bringing psychedelic out into the open is presently Miss Bieberman's main aim as director of the Center. "How are we going to make LSD respectable if everyone is so paranoid about it?" she asks...