Word: aims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Busch-Reisinger, Fogg and Sackler Museums, the Carpenter Center and even the steps of Widener. (Next year they plan to invade the dorm rooms). In an effort to intensify the bond between art and our daily lives, Agitprop is waging a war for cultural coolness on all fronts. The aim, according to the pithy Rimer, is "passion, not fashion...
Such efforts aim to "shorten the time to [the] Ph.D. degree" of graduate students, as well as lure quality junior faculty to Harvard, the report says...
Knowles stressed, however, the preliminary nature of the document and said his present aim is only to initiate departmental discussion on the issue of concentration curriculums. No Faculty-wide suggestions are made in the document, he said...
Public TV series that aim to educate often benefit by having a knowledgeable guide at the controls -- witness wine writer Hugh Johnson, who was host of Vintage, or art critic Robert Hughes, cicerone of The Shock of the New. The narrator of Dancing is Raoul Trujillo, a marginally telegenic modern dancer- choreographer who reads his lines with unconvincing passion. Under a more pungent guide, Dancing could have skipped a lot of repetitive propaganda. By series' end, viewers will have heard the word culture so often that some may be tempted, like Hermann Goring, to reach for their revolvers...
...eminence in American sculpture was complete: he could draw with steel in space with as much fluency as with pencil on paper, creating metaphors that mingle the organic and the mechanical in an unstoppable lyric eloquence. He imagined his work connected to the heroic tradition of American technology. "My aim," he wrote in 1952, "is the same as in locomotive building: to arrive at a given functional form in the most efficient manner." Sculpture's iron age, in such hands, was also a golden...