Word: aims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About this structure is woven a maze of personal and social problems which seem to have been selected solely in the aim of giving Mr. Behrman opportunity to lampoon radicalism and Freud, two sure-fire sources of sophisticated fun. There is a goodly sprinkling of amusing chatter but the procession moves nowhere, which leaves this reviewer a bit unsatisfied. It would be exceedingly pleasant if one could accept the production as an amusing social comedy but when grave problems are seriously injected, one naturally looks for maturity of thought as well as cleverness of execution. One is thus compelled...
...most valuable for its statement of Moore's aims in his later work, the "prose epics" which he considered his masterpieces, which critics like Mr. Morgan and Mr. Humbert Wolfe believe have "re-created" the novel, and which few ordinary mortals ever read. Moore dedicated himself with the single-mindedness of a fanatic to the search for an "absolute prose." He imposed on himself "a rule of evenness, a rule against emotional emphasis, a refusal not only of anything that could be called a purple patch but of any conspicuous variation of tempo in response to a variation of mood...
...Basic readjustment of Chino-Japanese relations whereby we aim to bring about the cessation by China of all unfriendly acts and measures and her active and effective collaboration with Japan...
...From conferences whose aim was to find a way out of the muddle left by the abolition of AAA, President Roosevelt took time out for two gracious acts. He dropped in unexpectedly to chat with the directors of the General Federation of Women's Clubs who were having tea with his wife at the White House. He sent to Congress a special message urging the appropriation of $500 as compensation for personal injuries suffered year ago by "Mrs. M. N. Shwamberg, nationality indeterminable ... as a result of a collision between a public jinrikisha in which she was riding...
...Java-Sumatra export 85% of the world's tea. The U. S. buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with a Dutchman...