Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through most of their-intermittently anti-intellectual -history. You could learn the three Rs in school, but precious little about life in the rough. In the past two or three decades, that philosophy changed as billions of dollars of federal funds were pumped into education with the aim of eliminating a variety of social ills: poverty, criminality, class distinctions. But the massive effort by no means achieved the lofty goals. In his controversial new book, Inequality, Psychologist Christopher Jencks argues that education is only one of many factors-and by no means the most important -in bringing about social change...
...public relations reporting. To insure that none of their hundreds of local subscribers will object to their coverage, the AP and the UPI are careful to present the official version of news stories in the blandest and least provocative manner. Their philosophy in its most banal formulation is: aim at the lowest common denominator of public interest and avoid alientating either the Chicago Tribune or the Podunk Gazette. Investigative reporting that might raise hackles anywhere is, of course, out of the question: how Hersh managed to break the MyLai story while working for the AP is one of the great...
...even the Eastern title events, maintaining that immense and immobile eye, on his goal, never faultering wavering, deviating like an eagle vying for game from the distant and transcending heights of flight, removed yet intent, detached, almost abstract, yet always and forever committed to the achievement of that aim...
...prosecute Ellsberg (such evidence would be inadmissible) but to provide more data for a "psychological profile" that the plumbers had asked the CIA to compile; the White House had found the CIA's first such report inadequate. He rejected Senator Lowell Weicker's charge that the aim was to "smear" Ellsberg for political purposes...
...concept of a universal "inferiority feeling." Most people, Harris says, never stop thinking of themselves as helpless children overwhelmed by the power of adults. For that reason they go through life believing that they are inferior, or "not OK," while they view everyone else as superior, or "OK." The aim of T.A. therapy is to instill the conviction that "I'm OK-you're OK," meaning that no one is really a threat to anyone else and that in the end everything comes up roses...