Word: approach
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Roman Catholics of South America and those of North America approach their faith from highly different points of view. So says Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel of Woodstock College, who taught at Chile's Universidad Catolica from 1937 to 1948. Writing in Notre Dame's Review of Politics, Weigel says that the Northerner believes that "life is for work, with the work occasionally interrupted with leisure so that future work be more efficient." To the Latino, "life is for leisure, interrupted occasionally with work so that leisure itself be possible." Latin American students in U.S. Roman Catholic universities, says...
...century. The morning meditations and night thoughts attributed to Picasso (called Julio Navarro in the book) are the cliches of art; his views on life and love are similarly copybook. And the speeches put in Picasso's mouth ("Balbac, I've got it! A whole new approach to painting!") often make him sound like a U.S. adman in the throes of a new toothpaste campaign...
...scores of political emissaries urging Ike to run for President. Named White House congressional representative by President Eisenhower in 1953, Persons worked skillfully at a job that concerned him with everything, from the "control of the tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft-shoe approach (e.g., he urged the President to avoid a public squabble with Joe McCarthy), Persons nonetheless won many a legislator over to the Administration side on such bills as this year's four-year extension of reciprocal trade...
...Roman Catholic Lawrence may have trouble in the rural Bible belt; Pennsylvania has never elected a Catholic Governor. All the while, Republican McGonigle (a Lutheran) is whaling away at the sins of Democratic Governor George Leader (who is running for the Senate), and Pretzel-maker McGonigle's earnest approach is winning small but sympathetic audiences. But in machine-ridden Pennsylvania, sympathy rarely wins elections...
Remember, however, that the number of Southern students who thus actively broadcast their discontents is relatively small. A far greater number, indeed the majority, attempt a quiet, less dogmatic approach to the integration problem. Perhaps it is because their manner is more relaxed and their conclusions less dogmatic that they form the generally unheard Southern voice...