Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They aim to give pleasure by a "synthesis of life"-achieved in straightforward pictorial form by force of imagination...
Jean de Botton is the bellwether of a small group of French painters who confess that the chief aim of their art is to give pleasure. They disavow both literal story-telling and the abstractionism of painters who paint to please themselves...
...deluge of pictorial magazines, newspapers, and other publications presents a problem far too significant to be passed over. At first such literature was limited to two distinct groups: the tabloid sheet and the more refined but less exciting photographic magazine. Although the tabloids freely admitted that their aim was to give the public photographs of intimate and compromising situations, only those people who were notorious for such activities were bothered. Now, however, the outgrowth of this seems to be more far-reaching in its scope. Everybody who could possibly become involved in a compromising or intimate situation is eagerly sought...
...members of its craft. Machinists, streetcar and other craft unions were spreading out on the same lines, working up to a first-rate Federation family quarrel. The president of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, also out to organize Westinghouse, cheerfully noted that to achieve its aim his A. F. of L. rival would have to trespass on the jurisdictions of no less than 37 of its fellow craft unions...
President Conant has repeatedly stated that he will make every effort to keep various shades of opinion presented to the students. This Committee feels that this admirable aim is in no wise served by the discharge of two prominent liberals in the Economics Department...