Word: aims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aim is to help to define a word, the word culture ... to rescue this word is the extreme of my ambition." So says Poet-Critic Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1948 Nobel Prizewinner, in the opening pages of his new book. But the reader who thinks this modest pronouncement means that dignified Poet Eliot is going to settle down to a donnish little tussle with Noah Webster had better brace himself for a shock. In Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Eliot advances a view of present-day western civilization that is as pessimistic as his famed post-World War I opus...
...Green is an English novelist (Odd Man Out; A Flask for the Journey) with a special knack for portraying the terrors of obscure city people. His aim: to steer a middle course between the bloodstained thriller and the bloodless novel of ideas. His latest novel achieves it. Mist on the Waters is a taut telling of a crime of weakness, and of the forces it releases in the lives of its perpetrators...
...with the Republicans. When it was over, the Secretary, like Cardinal Wolsey, needed a little earth for charity. Minnesota's tireless Walter H. Judd, onetime China medical missionary, who believes that the U.S. could still save China from the Reds if it only tried, had taken a short aim on the Secretary of State. Said Judd: "U.S. policy could almost be expressed in four words: first, aid to China was 'unnecessary,' then 'undesirable,' and then 'too late.' Just what is being done? What are we going...
When he finally took aim at Moscow, he drew the fire of Russian propagandists, who yelped that some of his remarks were "gross and rude slander." He helped fashion the so-called Truman Doctrine and warned Congressmen: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world." He planted a seed in a speech at Cleveland, Miss., which, somewhat to his astonishment, blossomed into the Marshall Plan...
Nevertheless, Harvard made an encouraging showing, Cliff Crosby enjoyed his hottest night in three years, tossing up 16 points to pace both teams. All but two of them came in the second half, when Crosby's deadly aim kept Harvard in the game...