Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every man," said he, after his own home was bombed. "No matter how low one sinks into racial bigotry, he can be redeemed . . . Nonviolence is our testing point. The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back." With such an approach he outflanked the Southern legislators who planted statutory hedgerows against integration for as far as the eye could see. He struck where an attack was least expected, and where it hurt most: at the South's Christian conscience...
...reason for the sought-after economic flexibility is the crisis in the satellites. Pervukhin ordered new efforts to be made in coal, fuel and cement production in western Russia, to compensate for deliveries no longer coming from Poland and Hungary. Another reason is the need for a new approach to the problem of defense. The declaration that the 1957 defense appropriation is $24 billion (down 5.6% from 1956) was an obvious attempt to invite comparison with the U.S. defense budget (estimated for 1957 at $41 billion). Actually, there has been no reduction in the Soviet's armed forces...
Henry Steele Commager, professor of History at Amherst College, objected to the present "quantitative approach" to educational problems. He claimed that efforts on the part of young people to "learn everything" even "citizenship and values," in courses at the college and even high school level are having a disastrous effect on American education...
Much of the "paraphernalia" of modern educational practice should be done away with, Commager said. Large scale athletic programs, formal courses, grades, and many other costly and time consuming operations should be forsaken infavor of a self-educational approach, involving a more European attitude towards the learning process, he asserted...
...science of roommate-choosing has its roots in darkest antiquity. Neanderthal man used the purely pragmatic approach, testing his prespective cavemate's worth by applying repeated delicate blows of the club to the latter's cranium. Although clubs today profess to more advanced methods of social scrutiny, the general idea has remained the same throughout the dim search of Man for Friend...