Word: objectives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early '40's. Columnists in recent weeks have warned that the Communist Party, realizing its unpopularity today, is returning to the popular front notion which gained for its such important victories as the acquisition of atomic secrets and the fall of Eastern Europe. Let us remember that the object of JRC and HYP participation in distributing these petitions is to discredit our armed forces and to ease communist infiltration into them if possible. the ultimate purpose: aid to the steady tide of Soviet expansionism. I do not care to aid or give comfort to anyone who keeps such...
...George McNeil, 40, starts with a still life "as a point of departure. Then almost immediately I see through the object into movements of form and color which create space. I call my paintings 'Space Impelled.' " Clearly McNeil's impulse was to churn space up into something gooey and gay. It took tubefuls of loud color, and a good deal Of single-minded thrashing and splashing, but he managed...
Said Reston: "An understanding between reporters and [Washington] officials on the obligations and rights of the reporter is imperative, but no such understanding exists today. Instead, responsible officials and responsible reporters . . . are now playing cops & robbers ... in Foggy Bottom*. . . The object of the cops seems to be to conceal information. The object of the robbers [should be] to disclose information . . . Both sides [wage] their own private little cold war [to] the detriment of the public...
...some of the speeches still ring with the old rhetoric and the masterful irony, e.g., the 1944 defense of Fala: "I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself . . . But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog." And in the more formal addresses there are still passages that read as impressively as they sounded when they were first delivered: "The life of a man is threescore years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live...
...presented the administration's recommendations last Spring to the hearings on the omnibus health plan, the scholarships were to be apportioned to the States, according to their population, not less than two to any State. The object of the scholarship program, as the FSA saw it, was to "keep pace with the progress made in financing the costs of instruction and facilities...