Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week's touching of hands by Arabs who basically are quarreling with one another was the result of the U.S. State Department's ill-advised attempt publicly to isolate and quarantine Syria from its neighbors (TIME, Sept. 23). All Arab friends of the U.S. had to show Syria that they would have no part of such a maneuver. And so last week Damascus was treated to the first diplomatic visit by an Iraqi Premier (Ali Jawdat, the summer replacement of Strongman Nuri asSaid) since 1949. The most elaborate gesture of all was the visit to Syria...
...student body's attempt to reform the social code, however, was rather nebulous. The proposals barred organized house-parties between the hours of 3 and 9 in the morning but did not prohibit mixed company during these hours. Rather, they were supposedly designed to create an atmosphere which would encourage the male to go to sleep...
...controversy arose last night in the apparent attempt by the University to centralize most student-operated agencies in the College through the newly-formed Harvard Student Agencies...
Furthermore the principle of minority censorship points dangerously toward cultural sterility. Much of art depicts and grows out of conflict. The artist formulates and may attempt some resolution of worldly conflicts; he does not cause them...
While it is unfortunately too late to repair the foreign aid program for 1958, it is hoped that next year Congress will attempt a better understanding of the complexities inherent in long range economic development. Rather than making its allocations on a defensive year to year basis, Congress should give its foreign aid administrators a positive program with more funds and increased flexibility...