Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education program, then, in order to strengthen its own upper level Nat. Sci. courses and to give the science major a more liberal orientation in his field should organize three full courses in the philosophy and history of physics, chemistry and biology. They should probably be modeled on the approach used in Nat. Sci. 120, with each science concentrator required to take one, presumably the one pertaining to his own field. The other General Education requirements would remain unchanged...
Harvard's approach to languages has traditionally been literary rather than linguistic. This is reflected in the language requirement, which calls only for a reading knowledge of some foreign tongue. As a result, the Harvard graduate may dazzle an evening cocktail party with his brilliant remarks on Voltaire's sense of irony or Goethe's treatment of Faust, but he will find himself at an utter loss in the Paris Flea Market or at a Munich Beer-Garden...
...federal government is undoubtedly well-aware of both groups, but it could be easy to suppose on the basis of Little Rock that their bark was worse than their bite. The decision to use troops in Arkansas was probably a pragmatic approach to a particular situation which demanded forceful and unequivocal action. Yet it would be dangerously easy to generalize a policy of armed force to effect integration...
...hoped, therefore, that groups seeking immediate integration will exercise patience and forbearance in Deep South areas. If a calm approach to the problems of integration can be realized, and if false hopes are not put in the Army as they were in "moderation," a major outbreak of violence and lawlessness may be prevented...
...effort will be sabotaged by the bureaucrats, those who have made a career of emergency-type, government-to-government foreign aid. Not only does the new program pose a sharp threat to the perpetuation of much of foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks. As a starter, the loan fund...