Word: aims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concentrated opposition to universal military training is the first aim of the newly organized Harvard Committee for Wallace, which received official approval from the Faculty Committee on Student Activities last week...
...Wallace," Lynd went on to say, "as a private individual who, unlike most, has constructive plans for the future." Nesin added that "we are picking the clearest figure," Newspaper treatment, said Nesin, has been unfair and biased; it is the aim of the Committee for Wallace to present his views straight-forward as they stand...
...Says Article 9 of Japan's new constitution: ". . . The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish [this aim, arms] will never be maintained...
...West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories of the year were perhaps V. S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey...
Five hundred feet of signatures is the goal the Harvard World Federalists will aim for as they begin canvassing "every home in Cambridge" tomorrow to obtain voters' support for a petition backing universal government...