Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous Rusk-Gromyko talks. Kennedy's carefully prepared play was suddenly to back away from all the talk about negotiation; he wanted merely to mention the general areas that the U.S. might be willing to discuss, and to state once again the U.S.'s firm intent to defend West Berlin. So far, said John Kennedy bluntly, Russia had made no acceptable proposals for any possible bargain; until it did, the U.S. was not interested in negotiations, either on the foreign ministers' level or at the summit...
...defiance of its spider-thin plot line, The Caretaker is completely absorbing-the kind of drama that leaves playgoers too intent to cough because they are forced to follow the play on several levels of meaning...
Kansas-born Novelist Julia Siebel seems intent on becoming the laureate of quiet lives desperately lived. In two novels about her native state, there is an occasional wheat-crop failure, but the yield of domestic unhappiness is as invariable as debt and taxes. In The Narrow Covering (TIME, July 30, 1956), careless and malevolent death bore down on ordinary prairie folk to whom Author Siebel assigned hardly a pleasant, let alone a happy, moment. For the Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop...
...London's intent in bringing Bloomfield before the court was to prove that there are "meaningless and irrational" social conventional about use of some words...
Cross-examining Moore, Sontag stuck doggedly to the contents of the book. Moore was ready to admit that characters in tropic talk about nymphomania, masturbtaion, sexual relations with ani- mals, Lesbianism, homosexuality, and ridicule of conventional religion, but insisted that the novel is pure in intent and even religions in its sense of the sacredness of life...