Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to applaud the exceptionally fine piece of journalism on existentialism and Dr. Rollo May's thoughts concerning its use as an approach in psychotherapy [Dec. 29]. However, I am puzzled by its placement in your Medicine section. This particular way of man looking at himself is so encompassing that the effects are felt in every aspect of living. It would be more meaningful to the reader to be introduced to existentialism (and other such concepts) in a setting that focuses his thinking on himself rather than on the physician as the one who "cures...
...White House. Said John Foster Dulles: "We've got some of your Moscow weather." Dulles introduced Mikoyan to President Eisenhower, and for an hour and 45 minutes the three discussed Germany, world trade and disarmament. As in previous conferences, neither side budged. Mikoyan's whole approach, said a White House aide later, was "the same old cracked record...
...type to accept political without professional vindication. In the field of Soviet genetics. Khrushchev's announcement that academic and research projects will henceforth get funds in proportion to their showing in the cowshed rather than in the laboratory amounts to a victory for the "practical" Lysenko approach...
...afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money if it builds two or three generations of prototype models, learning from each stage. But the report offered a back-door approach to meeting Anderson's objection: the Government would "substantially" increase its applied research expenditures on civilian nuclear power, thus taking over more of the lab and engineering work from industry...
Chiefly because they were both schooled in "the sonority of the grand tradition," they find that their general approach to music is remarkably similar. Even so, they have problems. "Please, Paul," cries Demus when he is not getting enough pedal, "I'm starving." Occasionally, they get their signals crossed: once, each waited "for a terrible moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play...