Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goal of the wei-ch'i player is to encircle his opponent, thereby extending his territorial control. Unlike the chess player, he does not attempt to capture his opponent's major pieces...
...this context, Bored of the Rings is a commendable attempt to re-establish the genre along its old classical lines. As with any decent parody, Bored operates on the assumption that anyone who might be frivolous enough to spend a buck on anything that bears the Lampoon's moniker must have already been foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across...
Four of the projects deal with applied weapons research-the Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vchicle (MIRV), the ABM, the Moving Target Indicator, and the Helicopter Project. MIRV is an attempt to develop a first-strike nuclear capability. The U.S. could use the threat of this capability to aid its foreign policy. Both MIRV and ABM are enormous subsidies to the defense industries, and as such point to the distorted priorities of American corporate capitalism...
DEMONSTRATIONS against these projects are only the first step in an attempt to change the educational machinery at M.I.T. from its defense-related bias. They are the beginning of a city-wide movement to end M.I.T.s participation in all war research and add still more volume to the growing...
...therefore follows that no professors or administrators should be ejected from their offices. It similarly follows that no other student group and no policemen should initiate violence upon the demonstrators. Demonstrators, if attacked, should make no attempt to return the violence but only to parry those attacks...