Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day a huge crowd turned up at Christ Church to hear its organist, Marion Boron, try to play Bach's Art of Fugue, or most of it. This performance was intended to illustrate her 1959 "discovery" of the symbolic intent behind this work, which she has described in a recently published monograph...
...read with considerable irritation the story concerning the teaching of Communism in American high schools [July 6]. As a high school student who has taken some pains in attempting to think openmindedly, it appears to me that the American educational system is still primarily intent upon imbuing its students with knowledge instead of clear intelligence...
...Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, 49, adding that the court's decision against a New York State law requiring a daily prayer in public schools was tantamount to setting up a secular state religion-of "time and history, but not eternity." Moreover, it perverted the spirit and intent of the Constitution's First Amendment, and nothing short of another Amendment would right the wrong...
Others instinctively felt that the Supreme Court was setting forth a new doctrine that distorted the intent of the authors of the First Amendment. Thus Cardinal Spellman called the ruling a "tragic misreading of the prayerfully weighed words of our Founding Fathers." But Founding Father James Madison, among others, interpreted the prohibition against "establishment of religion" far more strictly and sweepingly than the Supreme Court did last week. In Madison's opinion, tax exemption for churches was unconstitutional. So were chaplains for Congress or for the armed forces...
...long after the Civil War, two intolerable improprieties came to the notice of U.S. Victorians. One was a minor mountain in north-central Vermont, which a less delicate age had named Camel's Rump. The other was a literary movement, which called itself realism, whose adherents proclaimed their intent to describe the world as it really was. The prudes dealt easily enough with the mountain; it became, and still remains. Camel's Hump. They had more trouble with the literary movement. For decades it was a standoff; realism did not disappear, but neither were the early realists (themselves...