Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marks & Muddles. If Russia had any genuine interest in a compromise settlement, the Western allies had opened up one line of approach. In their recent notes to Moscow, the U.S., Britain and France had all indicated their willingness to have "advisers" from both East and West Germany present at a Big-Four conference. This was clearly a concession to Russia's insistence that reunification of Germany must be negotiated directly between the West German government and East Germany's Communist bosses. And last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department...
...seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed out, a visitor "can either spread himself hopelessly thin, or he can meet more fully with a few people." Eliot House takes the latter approach...
Lowell House uses a slightly different approach. Instead of area dinners, tutors from four different fields each invite two students preferably not their own tutees. Instead of a dinner-table tutorial, there is, hopefully, a mixing of interests. "These meetings often last until 9 or 10," Perkins noted. Winthrop is another of the Houses which sponsors regular tutor-student dinners, and Master Owen observed that "Ford would be surprised to know how much of his money goes for sherry...
...foreign aid program in the uncommitted areas, after more than a decade of operation, can be considered a failure, in terms both of economic development and of propaganda. The time has come to try a new, more logical approach...
Jean let them clack. She needed Roger Williams' publishing savvy while she gathered some of her own. And she shared his liberal journalistic approach. Old Guy would have been shocked at some of the changes gradually wrought in his empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...