Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot attain a really deep expression of a work," says European Conductor Herbert von Karajan, 58, "when someone stages it who does not see with my eyes, hear with my ears, and have my own heart." Which leaves only one man who can meet Karajan's standards for a director of any opera that he conducts: Karajan himself. And so, for the production of Wagner's Die Walküre last week at Salzburg's new Easter Festival, Karajan had no trouble getting both assignments. After all, the creator, financial wizard and guiding spirit of the entire...
...basic aim of the study groups, in Neustadt's and Price's eyes, was to attain one of the goals of the old G.S.P.A. which had been unfulfilled because of insufficient financing. That was to serve as the source of independent public policy research. This aspect of the Institute, Neustadt explains, will fit "the focus of the Kennedy School in that it will serve as a hinge between the academic disciplines and professional schools...
...liked your Essay, especially its conclusion. People submerged in details often lose sight of principles. We want peace, but a peace of justice, not of compromise. At the moment, the only way to attain such a peace is victory...
David Gordon's "Communities of Despair" points out an analogous problem. As developing countries will probably not be able to reach desired rates of economic growth, so too will Negroes be unable to attain true equality of achievement for a long time. Gordon says that the "excruciating frustration of negritude--engendered by that persistent gap between aspiration and perceived reality--provides a constant goal to leader and followers alike." He sees two possible paths out of this circular dilemma: changing the social structure of the country, or introducing a new criteria of equality, participating democracy, to replace the conventional criteria...
...same contradiction. In Nigeria, Tanzania, and the American Civil Rights movement, people want to gain independence, but they need help from larger society. At some point revolutionary movements may have to compromise their radicalism in order to succeed. Still they must hold off compromise as long as possible to attain independence in the end. Peter Weiner's article called "Guatemala: the Aborted Revolution" is distressing because it places most of the blame for the failure of that revolution on the United States. If American aid is so important for the success of a Guatemalan revolution, then these people will...