Word: intent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teachers' union opened a drive to win collective bargaining for the faculty, a right that no U.S. university grants. The A.A.U.P. set deadlines for the trustees to act on changes recommended by St. John's new faculty council. Impatient for reforms, 18 philosophy professors-with the intent of embarrassing the university-ran an ad in the New York Times saying that they were seeking new jobs...
...made it, I think, pretty clear that we are not intent upon destroying the regime in Hanoi or the regime in Peking. Our war aims have to do with peace in the area and the security of South Viet Nam. Now it isn't easy to compromise that. In other words, Hanoi either leaves South Viet Nam alone or it does not. If they do not leave it alone, we're going to support South Viet Nam. If they do leave it alone, peace can come very fast. It's not for me to say what...
...satirist in Wycherley never subdued the pornographer, and this bed-drawing-room comedy contains some of the most salaciously funny scenes and speeches known to dramatic literature. But if Wycherley uses, and perhaps abuses, sex to make his point, sex is not his point. His moral intent is to show that ethics are lowest where the prizes are greatest-and sex was the dearest trophy of Restoration society...
...provided such touches as a Hammacher-Schlemmer electric cannibal pot in which Sally is cooked, offstage, although she is eaten onstage. "I think I went too far here," Kopit explained, "not just in showing cooked portions of Sally, but in the play's whole conception. The play's intent is unclear, and could easily be interpreted as anti-Negro, though I certainly never intended...
...Passover Plot, published in England and currently causing a flurry there. He argues that while on the cross, Jesus took a drug that rendered him unconscious and made him appear dead when he was taken down, so that later he could be-removed from the tomb by friends intent on restoring him to a long and healthy life...