Word: aims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their "leaders" (principals, teachers and parents) in an effort to identify the components of a successful public school. "We have come to a realization after a decade of individually-oriented programs withering away that it is dangerous for a graduate school to be this far away from its aim," says Barth...
...Hamilton's first attempt at drama, but he had been writing snappy dialogue for 15 years as a cartoonist for The New Yorker. Though he lived in San Francisco part of that time, he tOOk aim at the Upwardly mobile everywhere, those who flit from trend to shining trend. Grand Central, like his cartoons, was supposed to be pointed and sophisticated, a Private Lives of the '70s. "Cartoons are very much like plays," he says. "A whole way of life is revealed in one sentence. In a play you just move this through time...
Some fellows named Lowell, Emerson, Longfellow and Holmes thrashed out the idea with several others over oysters, steak and Burgundy at the Parker House in Boston. Their aim was a truly American magazine that would "concentrate the efforts of the best writers upon literature and politics, under the light of the highest morals." They succeeded admirably. In the 123 years since that founding dinner, the Atlantic Monthly has been a bastion of Yankee rectitude and high literary purpose...
...reason that they should continue to be worthwhile is that they are not just a meet of national athletes; they are a gathering of the whole world of all these nations together. They are, in some way, a celebration of whatever togetherness there is in the world. The athletes aim to increase their own glory, and that of their country. But their attention, and that of the spectators and TV watchers, is focused on the same object. They, and we the spectators, are part of something larger than ourselves...
...possible measures to prevent U.S. athletes from participation in the 1980 Olympics are supposed to be an act of retaliation against the Soviet Union. In practice, however, it poses a threat to the world athletic movement and every other form of international cooperation. The political aim of such a boycott is to divide that unique fraternity of athletes and subvert all other forms of their international cooperation...