Word: targeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making the Mare Run. With his instinctive political sense, Johnson began seeking that consensus at once. His prime target was the nation's businessmen, estranged from the Kennedy Administration by the battle with Big Steel. Johnson thought Kennedy had overreacted in that case, just as he thought that F.D.R. had blundered badly in attacking big-businessmen as "economic royalists" a quarter-century earlier. Johnson catered to businessmen at White House luncheons, flattered them, assured them that they were "what makes the mare...
...many Protestants, ancient divisions now seem so irrelevant, compared with the need for unity, that the churches of Britain, at a historic conference in Nottingham last September, could confidently set a target date for their organic union in 1980. Catholic-Protestant cooperation, the dream of prophetic scholars a decade ago, is becoming so firmly rooted in parish practice that there is neither surprise nor scandal when Roman Catholics join Episcopalians for a service at Cambridge's Christ Church to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent. Liturgy is also bringing the churches together, as Catholics switch to the vernacular...
...been called the theater of cruelty. The theater of cruelty aims to punish an audience, flog it, and maybe even make it sick at its stomach. But which audience? Jones seems like a man who needs an enemy so badly that the nearest friend will do. His true target in these plays is the well-intentioned liberal intellectual with namby-pamby notions of cozy, overnight, instant brotherhood. The Toilet's depiction of Negroes as semi-cretinous urban cannibals is calculated to affront precisely those white racial ameliorators who passionately argue that Negroes are not like that...
...once Barry's devastating election loss struck home, Burch, 37, suddenly became the G.O.P.'s cause celebre for the year-the shoot-him-down target of Republican moderates and the rallying point for right wingers...
...Hartford's main target is not the critics, the dealers, or even the painters in general; it is Pablo Picasso. He dislikes almost everything Picasso has done since the Rose Period and claims that "Picasso's work has had the effect of wiping out almost all the gains that have painfully and step by step been made in painting during the last five hundred years." Hartford considers Picasso a potentially great painter who never developed, but chose instead to create "by means of mental gymnastics such as those glorified in IQ tests...