Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methods and the reasoning of the attacks on Communism in this country, and especially on teaching, have been both crude and subtle. The crude approach, as exemplified by such groups as the Barnes Bill partisans, attempts to legislate Communist teachers out of existence. Yet rarely in attempts of this sort have Communists been the real losers; the real injury caused by these shotgun tactics has been to liberals and other non-Communists. The subtle method argues that no man who follows a dictatorial dogma and strict party organization is capable of objective teaching. Yet the difficulties of defining an ideology...
...purpose of the pamphlet, which will be distributed privately to all members of the Association of American Colleges, is to show the problems which occur in teaching a course of this nature. President Conant warns, however, that "a case-history approach is both controversial and experimental...
...basic philosophy characterizing Munch's approach to the orchestra is that every musician is talented and a master of his instrument. Otherwise he would not be a member of the orchestra, Munch reasons. Consequently he seldom corrects individuals in rehearsals, and though he is careful of details, he does not pick out one particular player for picayune criticism. Only when he strongly disagrees with a man's particular interpretation will he stop a rehearsal to correct him. Thus, although he spends as much time in rehearsal as other conductors, less of this time is spent in repetition of short phrases...
Yard Concerts by the Glee Club--a perennial sign of the arrival of reading period and the approach of exams--return to the steps of Widener tonight, bar rain...
Said he: "Manufacturers and retailers have no more important approach to the problem of rebuilding volume than early price reductions. It would appear that many appliance retailers have found their sales off as much as 50% [in 1949]. However, [price reductions] are about the one thing the manufacturers are unwilling to face . . . Relatively little has been done to meet the public's demand for lower prices. The only question seems to be whether industry will move in quickly and do the needed thing or whether it will invite a couple of seasons of bad business and then finally have...