Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four weeks ago when Nikita Khrushchev stirred up the Berlin crisis, world attention focused on whether the vital but vulnerable Western outpost could and would hold out. The answer was yes. But by this week it was clearer than ever that the prime intent of Khrushchev's maneuvers is to reopen the far more complex problem of divided Germany and its future...
...stand together as monuments of principle. No less resolute than Mr. Churchill in 1940, the boys of Bicker know full well the consequence of yielding to that which is foreign. If Mr. Churchill was busy thwarting the idea of a Master Race, and if the Bicker boys now seem intent on preserving it, no matter; it is a question of principle...
While endorsing the principle of long-term loans, Goheen said that no Princeton student is ever likely to pay twice the present tuition. No student intent on learning should be denied a Princeton education because of financial need, he added...
...doctrine of Jungian humanism, the Psychological Labs operate under the contention that the simple mechanical methods of stimulus and response--successful in the study and control of lower organisms--may also be applied successfully to men. The teaching machines, in their manner of operation and in their intent to remove some of the human contact between teacher and student, definitely lie in the Cambridge Street camp...
...screenplay for "Old Man" is too intent on preserving pristine Hemingwaysque to show any significant amount of cinematic imagination. The movie retains an excessive amount of the author's descriptive narrative, and at several points invites you to react as you would to a guided tour or a slide lecture. It also exaggerates Hemingway's literary use of African lioncubs in the old man's dreams, and confuses his visions of Africa with fishing flashbacks and highly ambiguous scenic shots. They may just as well have been filmed on a Cuban beach as in Africa, and the lions seem...