Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show the "outsiders," including President Eisenhower and "the Yankee press," that Arkansas does not want integrated schools. With the courage to win or lose on horse sense, Chancery Judge Lee Ward of Paragould (pop. 10,000) grimly contrasted his own law-and-order segregationism with the "bullet and bayonet approach" taken by Faubus. "Orval Faubus stands today on the brink of treason," said he in an election eve TV speech. "Is it war between Arkansas and the United States?" But early election night Judge Ward conceded, wished Faubus "and the people of Arkansas a happy and prosperous administration" and went...
...holding out for his private parley, all but refusing to come to the U.N. at all, and trying fruitlessly to rack up a new continental "third force" under French leadership (see FOREIGN NEWS). At home there was pressure from State Department elements and congressional Democrats for a "more positive" approach to the U.S.S.R. that usually involved concessions to placate neutralist opinion. The Pentagon, on the other hand, was restless lest the diplomats tie the U.S.'s hands-and the very real strength of the deployed U.S. Armed Forces-by agreeing to negotiate too much and to make unnecessary concessions...
...Voices has modesty and some good writing on its side. The Harvard community has been known to read anything that was worth reading--even in long hand. And the gentlmanly leisure with which the editors approach the business of putting out a magazine is a lollipop in the long hotsummer of intense young men and their ambitious literature...
...command huge fees from Hollywood and television give up so big a part of each year to Shakespeare out of sheer love, devotion and hope. He is giving us productions that flow swiftly; yet the only adverse criticism I have of his general approach concerns the shows' running-time. There are fewer cuts than used to be the case, but he still seems reluctant to give us the full texts. So what if a production does run over three hours? We are willing nowadays to sit through four-hour movies and O'Neill plays, and we certainly...
This production inevitably invites comparison with the one last summer at Stratford. Though the general approach is different, it measures up favorably and is in some respects superior...