Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prevent serious social upheavals at home. The East bloc undertook this accommodation with full knowledge of the risk it faced in what West German Chancellor Willy Brandt calls Wandel Durch Annäherung?change through coming close. Actually, change is precisely what they hope to hold off; Moscow's chief aim at Helsinki is to legitimize the status quo in Eastern Europe. But now that they are dealing with the West, the Soviet-bloc regimes can no longer plausibly justify themselves by pointing to a threat posed by Western arms. Instead they plan to create an atmosphere of ideological siege...
...would have been insupportable. Her father, one of the brutish Hanoverian dukes, died when she was only one year old. The widowed duchess then came under the influence of an Irish swindler named John Conroy. It was he who set up the famous "Kensington system" for rearing Victoria. Its aim was to make her totally dependent upon her pathetic mother and so, by remote control, upon Conroy. Little Victoria had to sleep in her mother's room. She could never be alone. But she rarely had company of her own age-except Conroy's daughter, Victoire, whom...
...Harvard is a complicated, long process (sometimes too long to catch the persons we want), which begins at the level of the department and does not finish until the overseers have confirmed the appointment. The procedure varies somewhat from one department to another but allowing for manor differences the aim of the procedure everywhere is to insure (1) that all assistant professors within the department receive explicit consideration, and (2) that an effort be made to locate and assess the qualifications of suitable candidates anywhere else...
...perfect machines of judgement and no doubt similarly swayed. We are all supposed to be above such considerations, yet no one can look into the heart of his colleagues and swear they are pure; indeed it is a rare man who can look honestly into his own heart. The aim here is to minimize these influences. This is why the procedure is so complicated and full of checks and balances--why the ad hoc committee within the department is composed of men of varied specialties why every proposal contains within itself other possibilities why each nomination is then subjected...
...abyss that separates the facts of the matter and The Crimson version suggests that The Crimson needs to give more thought and care to its journalistic responsibilities. Insofar as its aim was to improve the quality of appointments at Harvard, no one can object. But insofar as the purpose was to reveal alleged in justices and miscarriages, it have worked a little harder, asked a few more questions talked to more people, thought a little longer. The whole business will serve as an object lesson to history majors on how not to do research...