Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard to tell how valuable the disciplined approach to love could be, whether in fact it might not spoil that naturalness that must exist if life is not to become rigid and formalized. At any rate Fromm argues for more responsibility in our interpersonal relations and less fantasy. And it is conceivable that the loving person could develop through great conscious effort that final stage of ease and naturalness that mark great artists in other areas...
Despite certain misgivings with Fromm's theoretical approach, this book more than proves its worth in the searching analysis of unhealthy kinds of love. As in other works Fromm pokes brilliantly through history and myth for examples to support his themes. Yet this volume again leaves one wondering whether Fromm isn't more of a critic than a liberator...
...pugilistic approach pleased everyone but one short, excitable fellow, who rose and proclaimed, "This is ridiculous." We agreed. He added, "They gave their word of honor that they would pay, and I think that they should be subjected to the embarrassment of being confronted by a Council member." We still agreed with his first statement...
...Numbers. Against this G.O.P. approach is, in Ike's mind, a diametric Democratic view. "Instead of trying to release, to guide and to help the great and illimitable results you get from a free people doing these things, they want to guide and direct-and they are not concerned particularly with the sound dollar, because they talk about raising ... expenditures [and] cutting taxes . . . That means . . . deficit spending. And you cannot continue to spend on a deficit basis without hurting your dollar...
Rigid supports, on the other hand, create an artificial and expensive situation which places no pressure on farmers to cut or end production. While rigid supports are not the "mockery and deception" Eisenhower calls them, they do approach legalized vote buying...