Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris conference to help sell his friends overseas on the plans to strengthen NATO. Stevenson later had some second thoughts on the practicality of such a trip, and the idea died. But Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seized at the opportunity to present a bipartisan U.S. approach to the NATO sessions, asked Stevenson to take on a job as his special adviser (TIME...
...India's insistence that she control Portuguese-held Goa, Congressman Saund reminded respectful members of New Delhi's Rotary Club that the "vast majority of American people will not agree that Goa is part of Portugal. India should explain in direct and simple terms. Don't approach Americans with negative assumptions. Americans are friendly toward India and have no bias in any way-if we don't succeed, let us search our own hearts. That is what our leader Mahatma Gandhi said. Let us gird up our loins to remove misunderstandings...
...treat: the air of secrecy proves more rewarding than the secret, the theatrical Herlie-burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like a last-minute spoilsport. Were the play better or the philosophy more challenging, Guthrie's approach might smack of outrage; as things stand, it is perhaps the only armor against boredom...
Those of us who have faith in social science believe that this "modern" approach may eventually yield a new vision because it uses new technical and philosophical devices for organizing and formulating our insights into human nature. We cannot plausibly contend that a mere increase in the number of observers who can find publishers will expand this vision, unless social science can offer us a form which will give these multiple minor insights a cumulative effect. Without such a form, each insight will be returned to the society from which it sprang, without affecting that society or making possible...
...Classics Department attempts to relate other cultures with the classics and to utilize a modern approach to reading through new criticism of literature...