Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intends to approach the study from the point of view of the recipient countries, attempting to understand their international conditions, their potential stimulus for growth, and their reaction to outside assistance...
...main problems facing the Catholic Church in Latin America are a shortage of priests and heavy inroads by Protestantism. To overcome them, Archbishop Antonio Samore, a member of the Vatican State Secretariat, described a "positive" approach. "We are not against anyone or anything," he said. "We just strive to strengthen our own faith, to increase the number of our priests and to make their work more effective...
...Star also backed away from massive resistance, all the state's major newspapers were on the record for a more moderate approach...
...particular interest was the first appearance in Cambridge of Elliot Forbes as conductor of the Glee Club, although he led the Radcliffe Choral Society here recently. The inevitable comparisons between him and Professor Woodworth will probably be being made for some time to come, for their approach to choral singing and style of conducting are quite different. The emphasis on diction which was a trademark amounting almost to a fetish in past years has been relaxed, allowing for a smoother, more fluid performance, but sacrificing the percussive element to some degree. There seems to be less attempt at choral "effects...
Other members of the faculty have expressed admiration for Curley's wit. Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Warns against a priggish approach to the man. Mr. Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Fellowships, grants him "talent, and a wonderful voice." To Professor John K. Galbraith, "He was clever and articulate, and had both an audacious sense of humor and a highly developed if somewhat indiscriminate imagination." Professor Oscar Handlin sees in the man "a certain kind of charm, and a lot of blarney...