Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attorney general resigned. Though he denounced Bridges' threat as "a rash and useless act," Sylva offered no apology for attending the dinner. Said he: "No one could have misinterpreted my appearance there. I don't agree with Governor King's approach to the problem at all. There have been many substantial changes in unions in Hawaii in the past five years. Our thinking has got to change to keep abreast of the times...
...Senate. If Mike Mansfield becomes the Senate's Democratic whip, his soft, low-pressure approach may work against him; the job sometimes requires a wheeler-dealer with a big stick. But Mansfield has impressive support. Texas' Johnson is strongly behind him. So are many Southern conservatives (Mansfield was a special protege of Georgia's retired Senator Walter George). So are such northerners as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Illinois' Paul Douglas. If he can persuade the dissident Democrats to work together, onetime Private First Class Mansfield may become a Senate...
...conservatism because it represents a departure from dogma, from the rigid principles and prejudices of classic conservatism. As Yale Economist Henry C. wrote, those who voted for "an other four years of conservatism" this month were endorsing "something felt, rather than clearly seen. Conservatism is an attitude, an approach, more than a specific set of doctrines. Its specific policies must change with the times-anything else would be ossification, not conservatism. And conservatism must flow from convictions if it is to be more than defense of vested interests...
Painter Sutherland has also jumped over the wall toward realism in his portraits, including his controversial Winston Churchill (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954). An even more direct approach, inspired by the drab realities of postwar Britain, is the young, vigorous "Kitchen Sink" school with painters such as Jack Smith, 28, and Edward Middleditch, 33, taking for their subjects the groceries on a kitchen table, teapots, stoves and even...
...newspapering ("I needed hot cakes"), wound up covering the Spanish civil war for the Detroit News. In World War II, as a major in the Army historical section, he went to the Pacific to cover the invasion of Makin Island in 1943. At first he used the conventional approach: copying high-level records, talking to the brass, touring the front. He learned little. Even on the battlefield, fable was rapidly substituted for fact...