Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot afford to waste an hour making pointless demands of this University. We have tried that before--unsuccessfully. Instead, we must aim our force against the source of the suffering: the United States government. The varmakers in our midst are most vulnerable now, as they bear the attacks of people throughout the world...
...says Bowdoin's Admissions Director Richard Moll. Amy Carney ensured her acceptance to Bowdoin when she spotted a tear in Moll's pants, then mailed him an embroidered linen patch accompanied by a quotation from Thoreau on the value of mending old clothes. The college's aim, says Moll, is "to build a class full of differences...
...bigness, is bad. Business men around the U.S. complain that the ITT affair has hurt them, too, because it has blackened the image of business in general and given fresh fuel to its increasingly vocal critics. In Latin America, the ITT case has given gleeful leftists the opportunity to aim their attacks on imperialistic Yanqui business against an identifiable company rather than a fuzzy abstraction...
...Vice President's famous speech in Des Moines, Iowa, was the opening blast in a sustained campaign by the Nixon Administration. Its aim: to chip away at the control exerted by the three major television networks over the programming they carry. That campaign received an uncalculated boost last year when the Federal Communications Commission limited the networks to three hours of evening prime-time programming (leaving 550 local stations across the country to fill the other half-hour with programming of their own). The FCC also barred the networks from acquiring financial interests in outside programs being produced...
Something small and serious was the aim here. Size is no measure of quality, though, and glumness no substitute for depth. Tomorrow is an antique-a remnant, like last year's Going Home, of television's "golden years," a time that memory has much improved. Horton Foote's screenplay is based not only on a William Faulkner short story called Tomorrow, but also on Foote's 1960 Playhouse 90 adaptation of it. This may explain why the film looks a little like a kinescope...