Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Project "East River" and other studies predict that concrete and steel shelters alone will have little value in the event of atomic attack, the FCDA's approach is of dubious survival value. In dense cities such as New York the use of all possible shelter space could not prevent hopeless overcrowding and mass deaths. Evacuation, on the other hand, would be practically impossible, even with an adequate early warning system...
Even with a more realistic approach to the nonmilitary problems of nuclear warfare, this revised organization cannot expect to capture immediate public interest, but it can at least solve two of the major problems blocking effective civil defense. Only an information campaign, personally led by the President, can hope to overcome the prevalent ostrich-like attitude of the American people...
...burgeoning of LP recordings has aggravated the problem, for although it has dipped into new music, it has dug deep into music of the far past, which now competes for attention with the new. He praised "fruitful and inspired teaching in the colleges," but regretted its prevailing conservative approach...
Even though these businessmen realize the value of liberal arts training in members of their own companies "who approach mature responsibility," they fail to realize that they must hire liberal arts graduates to provide a continuing supply of such people...
...briefing sessions do not insure good tutors anymore than a course insures good students. But the second-year graduate student who discovers himself a tutor would at least have the impession that the University took the program seriously and was sufficiently interested to communicate its broad purposes and the approach to effective student-teacher relationships...