Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OPERATIONS MANAGER MURPHY expressed similar sentiments. "From the first," he said, "our aim has not been to make profits. It is not our intention that every book will make money. However, we hope that the successful books will absorb the losses of the less successful ones. We hope our tracking system will allow us to insure this more efficiently...
...knew what body of thought lay behind his words and at play's end were urged to take direct action and go out on strike. A Catonsville audience is left with the taste of the Lord's Prayer in their mouths--with only isolated protests to aim for and little analysis to guide them...
...then implied that the U.S. might be interested in more than "sufficiency" and was determined at least to maintain nuclear parity. "No power on earth is stronger than the United States of America today," he declared. "And none will be stronger than the United States in the future." Taking aim at his critics on the left, Nixon drew loud applause by praising the Congress for its refusal to "unilaterally abandon the ABM, unilaterally pulling back our forces from Europe and drastically cutting the defense budget...
Those authorities lowered it to new levels. As Hannah Arendt observed, in the end, "what totalitarian ideologies aim at is not the transformation of the outside world or the revolutionizing transmutation of society, but the transformation of human nature itself . . . The totalitarian belief that everything is possible seems to have proved only that every thing can be destroyed...
...male nudes, gigantic as marble warriors from a ruined Hellenistic pediment, are quite unclassical despite their constant references to antiquity. The surfaces of trunk and limb are gouged, broken and battered: the act of painting the human image becomes an assault. Rhetorical defects plague his work. But its aim-which is to use the human figure as a unique metaphor for a sense of crisis and cultural exhaustion-is large; and at their best, as in Burnt Man IV, 1961, Golub's stiff monsters become monuments of scar tissue, celebrating man's minimal function: to survive...