Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taming of the General Education program is symptomatic of the pressures stiffing liberal education. The basic intent of that program is humanistic; but it never achieved the significance it deserves. Some of its elementary courses, in fact, are little more than departmental courses. Moreover, General Education courses are meant mainly for the uninitiated, and thus do not give the student opportunity to explore a field thoroughly. This opportunity can come only in the departments. Thus, even if the General Education program had the importance it deserves, it would not be adequate by itself to the task of humanistic education...
...consistent Protestantism would not be consistent in the sense that it would be destined to swing between a cultural obscurantism of orthodox Protestantism, intent on guarding the 'revealed truth' of the Bible, and a liberalism tending to equate the Christian gospel with a noble idealism demanding that all men become as Jesus Christ...
Then the horde struck--30 egg-hunters armed with wastebaskets, straw boxes, pocketbooks, hat boxes and paper bags, all intent on winning the first annual North House Easter egg hunt...
...true or not, the military indignantly took over-a plan known to President Kennedy weeks before. The brass arrested Ydigoras and Alejos, sent them into exile. Though Washington is in no hurry to recognize the Peralta regime, it will probably do so eventually. In return for promises of democratic intent, the U.S. similarly recognized the de facto military governments that overturned constitutional rule in Peru and Argentina last year. Last week President Kennedy told his press conferences that Guatemalan recognition would depend on "what assurances we get as to when a democratic government will be formed or when elections will...
...money and munitions. Early in 1778, the Sultan of Morocco impetuously decided to recognize the U.S. Government and, because of communications difficulty, tried to do so through a French emissary. France slipped in ahead, recognizing the U.S. on Feb. 6, 1778 ... Feb. 20 for Morocco, which, because of prior intent, still likes to think it holds first place...