Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPOLETO (June 27-July 14). The eleventh season of the Festival of Two Worlds in the Umbrian hills opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response...
...word "dialogue" has descended like a plague on the American press. But this is not the only word that has become overworked. Some other good examples include "relevant" (or "irrelevant") and "confrontation." Your news subjects always seem to be taking a "creative and pragmatic" approach to problems. "Swingers' one and all, they have a "meaningful commitment to life," they're "opening up new channels of communication" and, of course, "getting down to the nitty-gritty." You're a boring bunch of fellows-almost, you might say, "irrelevant." Why don't you get a new dictionary...
...prosecution included literature and statements, as well as a film of a draft-card burning attended by some of the defendants. The defense sought to counter the conspiracy charge by claiming that the five were acting as individuals (the jury agreed in Raskin's case), and that their approach was a form of free speech...
Most papers tried to strike a balance, avoiding the we-are-all-guilty approach, but at the same time recognizing that American society as a whole could not be held totally free of responsibility for what had happened. Newsday Columnist Flora Lewis suggested that the violence in American life cannot be separated so easily from American idealism, from the American dream. She quoted the wife of a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "America is a place where people really can do something if they pick themselves up and try. It's the beauty and the danger all at once...
Goren is also a brilliant Talmud scholar whose unorthodox approach to Orthodox Judaism has caused some concern in Israel's ultraconservative chief rabbinate, which demands strict observance of ancient Halakah (religious law) and fears him as a "reformer." Last week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...