Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shuttles of color-red, blue, yellow, white and black, without tints or complementaries or tones-in works like Mondrian's Color Composition A, 1917, or Van Does-burg's majestic but unbuilt design of 1923 for a university hall-refer to no ideology of the state. The aim of such work is to clean the mind and purge emotion; to construct a paradise of fundamental shape. Instead of the "handwriting" of brush marks, the clear flat surface; instead rf the knotted shadows of expressionism, the sunny rectangle-color as disembodied energy. Hygiene is an obsessive theme of constructivism...
...Foreign Minister," editorialized the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv last week, "has special talents in the sphere of thunderous secrecy. The entire world is always well informed about his timetable. Mr. Dayan creates too much ado about his secrets." Added a second newspaper, Al Hamishmar. "He certainly achieved one aim-to keep the name Dayan in the headlines...
Rosenbloom took special care to see that his investment in Namath would pay off. At summer training camp, the Rams' doctor persuaded Joe to stop running and take up swimming, a radical regimen for football. The aim was to expand his cardiovascular endurance without risking his fragile knees. Soon Namath was doing 1,600 yards a day in the pool-and becoming known among his teammates as "Tarzan" or "Spitz." Namath did not seem to mind: "I can't say swimming is better than other exercises, but I know I feel as strong as I ever...
State Sen. Julian Bond (D-Ga.) last night spoke at the Law School Forum, reviewing the historical situation of black Americans and urging black leaders to broaden their focus and aim for racial, social and economic equality...
...axiom of equal rights for all people by which Shahak says he guides his organization has pushed him to the forefront of Israeli political dissidence. Although his group concentrates on individual human rights and thus has no strictly political aim, when Shahak discusses its concerns he touches on a wide range of social and economic ills in Israel. He regards these problems as largely the result of a repressive political and judicial system. The denial of rights to individuals has not only undermined Israel's security, Shahak claims, but has also "blinded" Israel's Jewish population, as well as world...