Word: aims
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Herewith a radical proposal for breaking the impasse: revive the civil rights movement, which went into limbo long before some of its most important goals were accomplished, and aim it not only at racist whites but also at complacent middle-class blacks. All of us need a jolting reminder that integration's real purpose was not to produce Norman Rockwellish racial brotherhood. It was a strategy to ensure that black children, especially poor ones, would receive the same quality of instruction, textbooks and facilities that white children do. The genteel race mixing that goes on among the elite...
...call the deal. Dr. Timothy Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop the loftiest ivory tower. But from behind bars...
Smith took particular aim at Hyman on this front...
...newspapers and has won a Pulitzer Prize--that he may be neglected as a writer. This week we welcome him to Time as a contributor of a hybrid Essay form that proves he's as amusing in words as in images. Trudeau has never been afraid to aim at the powerful; just ask any recent resident of the White House. But for his first Essay, he tackles the merely pesky--"Those goofy apostles of gracious living whose catalogs turn up in my mail," as he calls them. "My assignment, as I understand it," says Trudeau, "is to provide balance...
...that time he was also teaching photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, a transplanted version of the Bauhaus, the great German laboratory of art and design that was shuttered by the Nazis. But the original Bauhaus aim of placing art in the service of socialist ideals didn't survive the trip to Chicago, because after 15 years of Depression and war, American artists were wary of politics. What they wanted was the luxury of a private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant...