Word: intents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What separates Russia and the U.S. "is a moral issue of the clearest nature," he told 8,000 intent teachers and students jammed into the University of California's cavernous men's gymnasium-and another 2,000 who sprawled on the grass outside, listening to booming loudspeakers. "It cannot be evaded. Let us make no mistake about it." The West was now, and would always be, at odds with a philosophy which claimed "a monopoly of the knowledge of what was right and what was wrong for human beings . . . Yet it does not follow from this that...
Both Mr. Fry and Mr. Eliot call their plays comedies and both, indeed, have written some very amusing lines and created some very amusing characters. Mr. Eliot, of course, has a way of letting you know all along that his intent is serious and Mr. Fry, just as determinedly, tries to tell you that his play is just a mockery...
...Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...
Your comparison of "wedding-cake modern" skyscrapers to the Babylonian ziggurat [TIME, Jan. 23] is most apt. For the ziggurat was none other than the Tower of Babel, a culture center for men intent on creating a world unified without God. Babylon the Great marches on: "Alas, alas, that great city . . ." (Revelation...
Speaking in Memorial Church on "What Men Hate to Hear" the Bishop described the world as "more intent on exploitation and making money than on service or doing a good job." He felt it was time man realized that "the wage of sin is death...