Word: aims
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...alienation from a distant and bureaucratic federal government. In this atmosphere, a few voluntary exercises in civic virtue would do little to change general attitudes. The time and opportunity costs that such voluntary activities often involve can be handled primarily by the well-to-do. What we should aim for is a common civic effort involving all classes, not continued reinforcement of class divisions...
Tourists to New Jersey have a similar aim. "Everybody wants to have a sweatshirt or a T-shirt that says 'Princeton'," Princeton Store buyer David I. Antis said...
...aim of communist revolution will be furthered throughout my Harvard years, and perhaps after, through the medium of spectacular excesses in Rightist rhetoric....Conservatives everywhere will want to extract themselves from my claims in their name, and they will be unable...
...THIS DICHOTOMY between the civil and military fields that best illustrates the inequality such a draft would foster. While the plan does and should aim at egalitarianism among those drafted, it cannot avoid discriminating against those without certain skills. It would certainly, as did the Vietnam-era draft, widen the gap between the privileged and non-privileged in society...
...most heart-wrenching scene, that of Eleni's execution. Silhouetted against the jagged cliffs of rural Greece, Nelligan as Eleni stands erect in front of a makeshift firing line. In sharp contrast to her fellow "criminals" she looks her murderers directly in the eye. As the riflists take aim, she throws her arms up in a gesture of defiance, glances heavenwards, and shrieks "My childrr...