Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked if the conference aimed at influencing policies of the Nixon administration, Carl M. Kaysen, co-chairman of the seminar and director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, said, "It isn't the aim of an enterprise such as this to come out with a conclusion that will be useful in making a specific decision on a specific problem...
...good KGB agent, writes Russian Spy Rudolph Abel, addressing fledgling operatives in the Soviet secret police. The convicted spy that the U.S. exchanged for downed U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962, Abel is the exemplar and frequent spokesman for a current massive Soviet propaganda campaign. Its aim: to trumpet the glorious exploits of the KGB in the Russian press, TV, radio and cinema...
...Bombing of supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos has increased since the bombing halt over North Viet Nam. Hundreds of ground patrols stab out daily to find and fix Communist forces and bring them to battle. The allied pacification effort has been accelerated, with the aim of hoisting as many yellow-and-red South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets to its control by early 1969: it now claims some measure of control in 5,100 of the country...
...publishers and imported wholesale. Several contain perfunctory yet prolix texts by scholars who take the money but regard the work as intellectual slumming; and the pictures are stuck in at random like plums in a Christmas pudding. Each year, though, a few more big books show encouraging signs of aim and editing. Still others are notable for size, subject matter, outrageous pricing and, occasionally, sheer beauty. Among the selections listed below, hard-driven Christmas-gift seekers will even find a handful of really good books-products of taste, intelligence, talent and the kind of professional care that almost amounts...
...Living Theatre appears to aim at nothing more nor less than what it achieves. If it doesn't interlock one's nervous system with its own and, so doing, deny such standard points of external reference as time and place, this is because the actors care more about their work than about their audience. They seem to be saying, in properly oblique fashion, that an audience can take care of itself...