Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guerrilla War. It was perhaps Harry Byrd's closest approach to demagoguery. Virginia has nothing like the problem confronting other Southern states in desegregation. About 52% of the state's 3,759,000 citizens live in areas with less than a 10% Negro population; if the whites accepted school desegregation, their children would no more be inundated than white children in Chicago or Kansas City, Mo. Only 15% of Virginians dwell in communities of more than 40% Negro. When the Supreme Court handed down its school desegregation decision, Virginia reacted with calm reasonableness. Governor Thomas B. Stanley...
...scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness ... it can also give us all a new way of life." He spells out both...
...Approach Gingerly. Even as a tubby kid enduring the snickering nickname "Podge," Parry O'Brien had always organized his life with a kind of compulsive neatness. Now he rearranged it methodically around an iron ball. Fraternity brothers in Phi Kappa Psi remember how he painted a shotput circle in the alley outside the fraternity house, to practice his technique-even at night. "You had to approach O'Brien gingerly," recalls one brother. "The thing was, you never knew whether he had just let go of the shot and it was headed in your direction...
...weight of evidence is that U.S. authors have indeed changed their approach to the businessman, and that their novels reflect the changing times. Author-Critic John Chamberlain, who eight years ago wrote in FORTUNE that novelists "are not only antibusiness; they are also anti-fecundity and anti-life," now feels that "the businessman has been made much more human...
Though the current crop of novels and plays may not be right on target, Lynn argues that authors approach their task with an inquiring and often sympathetic mind. Even the barbed humor in such plays as The Solid Gold Cadillac is aimed at the funny bone rather than the jugular. As General Bullmoose, a tycoon's tycoon, says wistfully in the new musical comedy Li'l Abner: "Ever since I was a child, I had a dream. And all that simple child wanted was to get his hands on all the money in the world before the Greatest...