Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Immediate Aim. Ranging all the way from the Bible-steeped National Service Board for Religious Objectors to such openly political outfits as Boston's Draft Resistance Group and Chicago's CADRE, the draft-counseling movement shares widely differing long-range goals. But the immediate aim of all is much the same: to aid the man who does not want to fight. Traditionally, the avenue of escape has been conscientious objection...
...more than $500 million had already been chopped away from the Administration's bill. At 3:33 a.m., the legislation squeezed by on a vote of 202 to 194. As close as the vote was, opposition leaders had no intention of defeating the foreign aid bill entirely. Their aim was to scare the Administration, and that they did most successfully...
Lost Love. Holt's basic complaint ever since has been that schools test, drill and grade children so often that they lose interest in the meaning of what is being taught, and schooling becomes a charade in which the students' real aim is to escape embarrassment and pain. By contrast, before he gets to school, Holt argues, a child has "a love affair with life." In fact, his attitude toward everything in the world about him is to "taste it, touch it, heft it, bend it, break it-and he is not afraid of making mistakes...
Today, four Vanguard records and over 300 tour dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim. Like a select few before him (John Jacob Miles, Travis, Clarence Ashley), he forms a bridge between America's primitive folk heritage and the sophisticated listener...
...screen, a string of dusty, fly-bitten Southwestern roadhouses and farms. (One booboo: the use of post-1934 dollar bills.) But repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this, if you please, was the U.S. entry in this year's Montreal Film Festival...