Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best example of the unconventional approach in action is in Columbus, Ohio. A humane and intelligent Lutheran minister, Rev. Leopold Bernhard, helped set up a "Neighborhood Corporation" in Columbus's ghetto with the help of Washington writer Milton Kotler. The Corporation is, in fact, little more than a simple legal line drawn around a neighborhood of 8,000 people. (Any good lawyer can set one up in a few hours--if a community so wishes...
...approach, some may note, is also reminiscent of General George C. Marshall's handling of American aid to Europe. Instead of attempting, from Washington, to decide how best to allocate Marshall Plan resources, the General told the Europeans to get together and come up with their own plans. In effect, he said, "Once you have come to conclusions about how best to proceed, we'll help you do it--but the decision is yours, not ours...
...BOSTON, were the Mayor able to summon the courage to abandon the conventional approach and hand resources over to community control, he might also solve his own administive headache. He too could say: 'You people decidewhat is best for your neighbourhood. We'll help -- but it cannot be our decision...
...Such an approach, of course, would also shrewdly pull the Mayor's own head out of the line of political fire which will develop from one direction or the other--no matter which way he turns in coming encounters...
...Columbus example has been tried in dozens of other communities--including New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant, in a project sponsored by Senator Robert Kennedy. But even if the Mayor were to follow the approach, in fact, he would be taking only a very limited step towards the wisdom of the unconventional approach, in fact, on its own it can end up as little more than "shrewd administractive technique" for routine antipoverty efforts...