Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moreover, without any disavowal of the libertarian lodestar that led him into politics in the first place. "The nation needs to be calmed and unified," he says. "It needs steady social progress with a minimum of disorder. I offer leadership based not just on idealism but on a pragmatic approach to government. I offer the capacity to blend the different factors of American life into a national mosaic...
...four or five dollars? Just a hamburger and a cup of coffee costs a dollar and a half." The Sack Theatres have become an established part of institutionalized Boston. Sack is right: that lends the enterprise a certain prestige. Yet its very success seems to threaten the unconventional approach which Sack claims has helped him make...
...referrals altogether and visited 2,644 homes at least once. Cambridge Visiting Nurses reaches about 200 parental cases a year from Cambridge City Hospital and is referred prenatal cases from Boston Lying In's Clinic. The executive director made a strong statement in favor of a forthright approach to birth control. Even in cases not specifically prenatal (about 800), the visiting nurse will initiate discussion on contraceptive if appropriate. She mentioned the obstacle posed by some Catholic doctors who refuse to prescribe effective methods. She was the first of my many interviewees to concern herself with the problem...
...possibility of serving unmarried women may not have occurred to most respondents and if it had, more women would have favored separate policies for married and unmarried. The (3 to 1) results are highly encouraging and belie the myth of opposition among laymen to a liberal and forthright approach to birth control. In fact it seems that the professional policy-making middle class is acting neither in the spirit of the church as personified by Cardinal Cushing's ecumenicism, nor in accord with public opinon; rather it is upholding in the name of "prevailing sentiment" mythical standards that are dear...
...treated David Rockefeller, president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, in the same limited way in a two-part New Yorker profile in 1965. Kahn quoted President Pusey, Rockefeller's banking associates and several statesmen on Rockefeller, and Rockefeller himself on the value of hard work. He did not even approach the question of what it means to be David Rockefeller, billionaire banker. But if all the New Yorker's readers do not know Rockefeller, they know someone who knows him, and for them the lack of perspective is not too distressing. In the same way, Harvard people will...