Word: attained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movie consciousness is slightly anachronistic if he's living in 1930, and the film might just as easily have been set in the present time. Perhaps Stoppard presents these Nazis as a counterpoint to Herman: they also dream of an ordered, perfect world; they also must cruelly destroy to attain it; they also, ultimately, find that there is no final solution in a chaotic universe. Or perhaps they are merely placed in the film as an irritant, imposing further on Herman's vision...
...than it resembles the Republican Club. The question remains whether the representatives will have the commitment and patience to do the tedious committee work necessary to prepare and advocate alternatives to the University's present policies. And even further down the line, no one knows if the assembly can attain the recognition and power needed to put such alternatives into effect...
...political mechanic cast unexpectedly into the starring role of candidate, a practical man suddenly on the verge of living out the dreams of power he had always been able to suppress. A.L. Levine thinks like no politician you've ever come across: idealistic but with the practical sense to attain his vision, knowing his limits, and not trying to hide his ugliness but instead turning it to the good. And always guarding a sense of humor, laughing at himself as easily as anyone could. A fantasy, perhaps, but an endearing...
...Midwestern communities where raging mobs drove out the Mormons in the mid-19th century after Prophet Smith was shot to death. Despite the gesture, the church is adamantly opposed to the ERA or other concessions. Kimball states that unlike blacks, it is "impossible" that women would ever attain priesthood...
...decade--a revision that would spark considerable student opposition and place the ill-defined phrase "Core Curriculum" into a hundred newspaper columns. From below, students pressed for a new form of self-government, as asembly that would give students the powerful voice many believed they would never attain under the nine-year-old system of student-faculty advisory committees. And finally, from the outside world there arose a different kind of pressure. Thousands of students began to feel a moral imperative to protest Harvard's financial holdings in companies doing business with the white minority government in South Africa...