Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where Ends Justify Means. "What, then, is the sound approach to questions of foreign policy? I suggest that it is what we might call the strategic approach-to consider various courses of action from the point of view of their bearing upon major objectives. If you object that is no different from saying that the end justifies the means, I must answer that in foreign affairs only the end can justify the means, that this is not to say that the end justifies any means or that some ends can justify anything...
...entangled in controversy than this week as the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization gather in the great A-shaped building in Paris at the head of Avenue Foch. The U.S. and France seem set on a direct collision course that threatens to wreck NATO. The ostensible object of the trouble is the U.S. proposal to create a multilateral nuclear force of 25 Polaris-missile surface ships-although MLF does not even formally appear on the ministerial agenda. In fact, the malaise goes to the very core of Atlantic relationships, and how they have changed since the vision...
...weighs seven tons, stands only slightly larger than life size and, with somewhat oxidized symbolism, depicts Rhodes as a naked Apollo, riding fearlessly onward astride a magnificent prancing stallion. Donated to the city four years ago by the Rhodes-founded British South Africa Co., the statue soon became the object of all self-respecting Zambians' hatred...
Subjects who get a lift from the drug describe all colors as bright and gay-a traffic light may become an object of surpassing beauty. If the subject be comes depressed, the colors darken or bleach out. Highly colored geometric tapestries flow past the closed eyes...
...bronze Lesson of a Disaster, a tripod sprouting flames. Noguchi's smooth, pierced-granite Black Sun continues to exploit Oriental eclecticism in graceful abstraction. But the average age of the Whitney's choices is 43. Even younger sculptors are experimenting with new approaches to the object. Some may make sculpture from...