Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...challenge of putting free time to work. But he is not particularly concerned with the well-educated "leisured citizen," who usually finds his own avocations. On the other hand, opportunities for those who never finished school or once held menial jobs are much more limited, and the Center's aim is to develop those limited opportunities as much as possible...
Citing St. Augustine's axiom, "War's aim is glorious peace," he noted that in Viet Nam the U.S. is seeking to create "an atmosphere in which resolution of our difficulties can be found off the battlefield." And, before a conservative audience, he urged the Republican Party to become "broader and more creative." He ventured that the old shibboleths of "big government" and the Communist conspiracy have outworn their meaning. Added Brooke: "There is an obligation to propose rather than primarily to oppose...
DAVID D. LOUD '68, Students for a Democratic Society: Are not the atrocities against the civilian population of Vietnam a necessary consequence of the American aim of counter revolution...
Goldberg simply refused to tackle a number of questions. He had an opportunity to argue that the aims of American policy are of greater priority than its most distressing drawbacks -- the widespread death and desolation inflicted on non-Communist civilians. Goldberg, in typical well-meaning fashion, responded that there is too much killing already and that it is his aim, and presumably the President's, to "build some sense in the world community...
Although the students have phrased their discontent in the form of questions, their aim has been much broader than a simple exchange of opinion...