Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this would be bad enough, but last week the situation worsened when members of the junior class said they were giving authorities the names of literally hundreds of their classmates who, they claimed, had violated the code. The avowed aim of this rush to judgment: to implicate so many cadets that West Point could not possibly dismiss all the guilty ones without virtually wiping out the entire junior class...
Booby Prize. "How many believe what I've said?" Ron asks, and the hands shoot up. "Then you're assholes. Don't believe or disbelieve any of it. Just hold onto it like a brick on your lap." Our aim should just be to "get it"-acknowledge what has been said. Many fear that the philosophy is too deep for them, but Ron says it will all become clear later. Hostile questioners are verbally thrashed and told to "come off your act." Intellectuals, who are already guilty of thinking, are tripped up by est's Catch...
...thousands of Americans who visit the seedy Mexican border town of Tijuana each year, many aim not to live it up, but simply to live. For more than a decade, one of Tijuana's busiest spas has been a clinic operated by Dr. Ernesto Contreras Rodriguez, 60, who, in the eyes of his patients, offers that most elusive of medical miracles: a cancer cure. The heart of his treatment, a drug called Laetrile, is banned in the U.S. and Canada as a phony remedy; but it is perfectly legal in Mexico, where Contreras has administered it to some...
DeLillo's aim is to show how the codification of phenomena as practiced by scientists leads to absurdity and mad ness. It is not his fault that Pynchon is simply better at weaving advanced science and cartoon characters into a convincing whole cloth. Still, Ratner's Star, for all of its monotonic monologues, of ten displays impressive erudition and the same inebriated infatuation with language that worked so well in DeLillo's End Zone, his surrealistic send-up of football and warfare...
...have a basic credit course program," Shinagel said, adding that the school's aim will be to make its program more attractive to students...