Word: aims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other extraordinary scene is laid in a Franciscan monastery where three Army chaplains--Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish--seek refuge. War has passed by the monks, leaving them in their unreal tranquillity with no concern greater than the aim of converting the Protestant and the Jew. The monks are oblivious to the Catholic chaplain's attempts to reason with them; he begs them to accept the fact that the two "heathen" are just as religious in their own way--but the monks can only sit fasting in horrified silence...
...economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities of the EKU "stretch out far beyond the borders of the U.S.S.R. Here the main aim of the EKU is the disorganization of the world economy: inciting class war, aggravating industrial crises, organizing strikes." In short, the EKU's "Foreign Sector" is Russia's High Command for her war against the Marshall Plan...
...Lawrence became more emphatic. "You must work out the idea of a new state," he insisted, underlining the word "must" 15 times. Lawrence suggested that in addition to a male "Dictator" the new state have a female "Dictatrix" too, in fairness to the female population. The ultimate aim, he continued with passionate wooliness, was "a perfect government" dedicated to "the highest good of the soul, of the individual, the fulfillment in the Infinite, in the Absolute...
Against this, Stalin's interviews with Roy Howard (1936) and Harold King of Reuters (1943), purporting to disavow world revolutionary aims, can only appear as eyewash, and that is just how Historicus explains them. The interviews, he says, "do not really contradict the strategic aim of world revolution because they refer to a temporary tactic...
Lend an Ear attempts other targets with varying aim: those squalid Latin American tourist villages where hot sex and heavy gunfire are hourly occurrences in the public square; a bandleader and his wife sweating to live up to the lurid-and contradictory-bulletins the columnists issue about them; an old-fashioned Friday afternoon dancing class, in which the Penrod motif loses out to the pretty-pretty. There are the usual-all-too-usual-dance numbers in Lend an Ear, and some pleasantly forgettable tunes...