Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concluded that women who vote Democratic are "tender-minded" while Republican women are "tough-minded." The female Democrats "feel a social warmth in the people around them, and they feel much the same warmth in their own political party." The Republican women "appear to have the more self-oriented approach . . . They seem to have greater self-confidence and awareness of their own capacity." To them, the candidate's competence is the most important consideration; for Democrats, "the intellectual aspects" are most important-"thinking rather than doing, intention rather than action...
...prolonged absence from the capital may be a deep and abiding policy quarrel in the top echelons of China's Communist Party. If this is so, it marks the first time in nearly 20 years that Mao, who has sometimes been denounced by Moscow for his pragmatic approach to Marxism, has had to face a serious challenge from within...
There is a marked difference between most places of worship and a new synagogue designed by Architect Rau and dedicated fortnight ago at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Rau's austere approach to his task conformed with a striking text in the Jewish Prayer Book: "He who is walking by the way and rehearses what he has learnt, and breaks off from his rehearsing and says, 'How fine is that tree, how fine is that field,' him the Scripture regards as if he were guilty against himself." Rau decided against all distractions...
...opportunity for wild humor in the outcroppings Humphrey must negotiate in his scramble to the top-the office sweater girl; an addled old clerk who has sandbagged his office with 67 filing cabinets full of senselessly duplicated detritus dating from 1939: and a villainous colonel whose spit-and-demolish approach to bureaucracy reaches peaks of brassbound unreason. But Drohan shows no real talent for his chosen business, satire; instead, he insists on trying to make the reader take Humphrey's doubts and flounderings seriously. A Candide may get into frightful predicaments, but under the rules of the game...
This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act-to-be on his soul. In the end, he knifes his victim only to discover that he killed the wrong...