Word: intent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University is intent upon its search for lebensraum it might devote the warm summer evenings to pondering the possibility of building parking lots. Such a solution to the parking problem might well be expensive, but it would at least reduce the issue to its financial form...
...heart of the problem," as Monro sees it, "is to distinguish between the intent of the Board of Directors and the individual instances of excess. This is a very large organization. We have tried to lay down some general guide-lines, but we don't try to overdirect agencies...
...Khrushchev seeks a summit conference primarily for the vague generalizations of illusory accord which would come out of it, euphemistic statements corroborating the U.S.S.R.'s peaceful intent. It is possible, and even probable, that the U.S. would agree to the issuance of public statements of this nature, if only to satisfy the "solutionist" optimism of the American people. As at Yalta, it might seem necessary for the Government to reach agreement for agreement's sake, to underscore the positive value of negotiation, even at the expense of future American policy. At Geneva in 1956 what at first appeared...
...Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries are 29 sculptures with a vastly different intent. Paris Sculptor Etienne Hajdu, 50, born in Rumania of Hungarian parents, first approached his work under the inspiration of Abstractionists Fernand Leger and Brancusi. A wartime stint as a laborer in a Pyrenees marble quarry and an abrupt shift back to the position that "man is wonderful" gave him a new material and new goal...
Although the section of the report under consideration--the proposals concerning Honors candidates--is on the whole excellent, some of its implications need more explicit statement. The generalness of the general qualifying examinations, for instance, would be bolstered by a Faculty statement of intent declaring that such tests are, indeed, directed less at achievement in tutorial or courses than at broad knowledge of the field. The recommendations on the scope of tutorial, also, need full support to guarantee that upperclass tutorial will truly become a refuge for independent study and that sophomore tutorial be directed along the students' lines...