Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though not excused). Neither the orchestra nor guest conductor John Corley was ready to bandle such a wildly gyrating piece, and with a little spiritless effort they got it out of the way. Mr. Corley had obviously cultivated a style better suited to the three remaining works--a straightforward approach that concentrates on accuracy, balance, and ensemble. In any case, the consensus at Sanders Theater (both orchestra and audience) seemed to be that there were better things to do that evening...
...afraid that political science has taken an exclusively functional approach. "I object not to a functional approach, but to a functional approach that has no normative reference beyond the range of data it seeks to order and make use of," Bay said...
...House of Representatives' current initiative to cut off Federal aid from students who disobey university regulations is a striking example of 90th Congress' confused and reactionary approach to the nation's most urgent problems. In approving the measure last week, the House showed once again, as it has in its responses to the riots and to the antiwar movement, that most of its members lack any understanding of the phenomena which they seek to suppress...
...search for solutions, there is no point in attempting to take nature back to its pristine purity. The approach must look forward. There is no question that just as technology has polluted the country, it can also depollute it. The real question is whether enough citizens want action. The biggest need is for ordinary people to learn something about ecology, a humbling as well as fascinating way of viewing reality that ought to get more attention in schools and colleges. The trouble with modern man is that he tends to yawn at the news that pesticides are threatening remote penguins...
...campaign has been at all times as low-keyed as it was effective. Students stressed over and over that they were driving not toward a confrontation with College officials but cooperation. The latest example of this approach is a letter to the class president, Diane Balter, stating that one hundred plus signers "have serious reservations" about contributing to the College, because they feel they would be "supporting certain policies which we found antithetical to our needs during our years at Radcliffe." The letter specifically refers to Radcliffe raising money to build a fourth House, and not for scholarships or subsidies...