Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into the cement floor is taken into account and even the accordion walls holding windows and louvres at the back of the room are used to display furniture. All is appropriate and sufficient, no more. Katayama takes van der Rohe's maxim "less is more" as his own--his aim is to parry and eliminate, always saying with the barest essentials more than would be said with much encumbrance and ornament. The beauty of his design is that he leaves the chairs to talk for themselves. In fact, he forces them to do so, by arranging them in groups...
...phasing out of these programs involves acting as a catalyst in community organization. The aim is the development of more community pride and power. In largely black communities, this amounts to the black power ethic. Many of the PBH leaders see the need for black volunteers to work with black children in order to establish a positive racial identity. But there are very few black volunteers...
Johnson insisted that U.S. goals in Viet Nam have been clear from the first. "I thought even all the preachers in the country had heard about it," he cracked. One aim was to preserve U.S. security, another was to honor a commitment. "In 1954 we said we would stand with those people in the face of common danger. The time came when we had to put up or shut up. We put up." A third goal was to resist aggression: "If you saw a little child in this room and some big bully came along and grabbed...
...cannot read and I cannot write," says a Peruvian mining peon, in some wonder, "but I am learning through my ears." Highly conscious of what can be taught through hearing, a group of Peruvian businessmen, political leaders and educators founded and funded ERPA (Escuelas Radiofonicas Populares Americanas) with the aim of making listeners "better farmers, better cattlemen and better Peruvians." Operated as a nonprofit venture, ERPA is sending educational broadcasts to people who live as far as 15,000 ft. up in the Andes, offering organized study of such subjects as farming, health and home management, economics, religion, citizenship, sports...
...Sunday circulation. Springer also publishes Hör Zu! (Listen!) a TV guide that has the largest circulation (3,764,000) of any weekly magazine in Germany. Nor does Springer show any sign of slowing down. Next March he plans to bring out another magazine, Jasmin, which will aim for a circulation of 1,500,000 among young marrieds...