Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basketful of problems awaits Joe Dodge. Differences of approach among Dulles, Stassen, Humphrey and others have stalled Eisenhower's none-too-vigorous past efforts to construct a clear-cut U.S. economic policy for the world (TIME, Dec. 13). Dodge would not go back into the Washington snake pit if he was not convinced that this time Ike is determined to get his foreign economic program through Congress-a task that must begin with agreement inside the Administration...
When the sad spectacle lasted into the fourth day, Cafe Filho tried a small-carrot-and-big-stick approach. He summoned the strike leaders to Catete Palace, told them that 1) if the doctors would do their moral duty and go back to work promptly, he would try to find a way to ease their salary pinch, and 2) if they did not go back promptly, he would begin drafting them into the army. (Most young or middle-aged Brazilian doctors are rated as military reservists.) That worked. At their strike headquarters in the dance hall...
...Cliffe Fund Drive's two day personal approach this fall gained $1000 more than last year's week-long campaign, Joan Friendly '56, Co-Chairman of the Fund Drive, said yesterday...
With strikingly individual Eartha Kitt-risen from blues-singing to stardom-playing Teddy in a darting, prickling style, Mrs. Patterson has more in its favor than a sympathetic theme and a sharp approach. Yet the play as a whole is curiously flat and eventually tedious. The fault springs from nothing genteel or unhumorous in treatment: the authors squarely face Teddy's conflicts long before she does. Nor need the play's want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage...
...short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place in much the same way. So was Lieut. Henry of A Farewell to Arms; so was Colonel Cantwell of Across the River and Into the Trees. A critic named Philip Young last year published a book attributing Hemingway's approach to life and his artistic creation mostly to the Fossalta wounding (plus some harsh sights witnessed when he was a boy in Michigan traveling with his doctor father on emergency calls). Hemingway does not think very highly of that book. "How would you like it if someone said that everything...