Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nations." But the U.S. "seeks always to keep within the spirit of the Charter." When the U.S. "responded to the urgent pleas of Lebanon, we went at once to the Security Council and sought U.N. assistance for Lebanon so as to permit the withdrawal of U.S. forces," but that approach was blocked by Soviet vetoes...
...nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad" as a prop to internal discipline...
...performers (including a French poodle) go through their paces with well-drilled precision. Only Gene Lyons gives a natural, restrained performance; the others are considerably exaggerated. The general consistency of approach in the acting, though, leads me to suspect that this production is almost 100-per cent director Robert Finkel's show, down to the last, over-rehearsed twitch or glance...
Biggs concluded the 1956 series too, and the opinion I expressed in these pages at that time still stands. For Biggs has not mended his ways. Avoiding all long legato lines, he plays everything in a jerky, jabbing fashion. His approach would be better suited to chopping ice or dicing carrots. One of the great virtues of the organ is its ability to sustain a tone indefinitely without losing strength; yet Biggs is reluctant to make use of the advantage, and quits even the last not of a phrase almost the instant it sounds...
...first show was finally given in Christ Church auditorium, and the next was presented in a common room of the Harvard Union, in the round, an approach that has not been used lately in Cambridge. The experiment has proved successful and we hope that more plays in this form will be seen in the future...