Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white elementary pupils out of wooded, hillside suburbs to once heavily Negro schools in the flatlands near San Francisco Bay. About 2,000 black children move in the opposite direction. Another 2,000 students of each race were shifted to other schools within walking distance of their homes. The aim of all the trans fers was to make sure that each of Berkeley's 14 elementary schools has between 36% and 45% black enrollment. This closely matches the city's racial composition, which is 41% Negro...
...Superficially, it looks like we're the place where we let kids handle things," admits Spock. "But that's only a byproduct." The real aim, he points out, is to "bring kids together with three-dimensional materials in such a way that real communication occurs between the child and the object." There is no question that the kids respond: attendance has nearly tripled since Spock took over, reaching...
...affects real women she trails off in feeble optimism. She argues that writing and opinions are moving toward a mode of indecision, a non-judging, antiabsolutist, amoral, particularized view of life in which no form the species can take is not somehow acceptable and in which the artist's aim is to become rather than to judge the other. The mode of Joyce, Sartre, Godard, drugtakers and anarchists, it excludes sexual stereotyping and indeed is a feminine mode in that it shuns ethical sweep for the underside of life that women have always been relegated to. (In contrast...
...concerned that some toes got stepped on (though I must confess a certain chagrin that it happened to a man who has been a constant, even if quiet, advocate for black dignity) than with the fact that the wrong toes got stepped on. It really is a question of aim. Professor Friedel is visible, hence most vulnerable to the frustrations of the black students who feel less than satisfied with the state of affairs in the course. But in lambasting Friedel I am afraid we are missing the mark and it irks me that we are wasting our ammunition...
...executes his revolution from above more or less indirectly, carrying suggestions from one group to another, completing or urging the completion of half-formed plans. He assembles dinners and meetings in the hope that those convoked will somehow adhere and persist. His aim is the old one of making something out of the curious mixture of professors, tutors and undergraduates who sit down to lunch every day beneath the glum stare of the 14-point moose who surveys the House dining room...