Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years later fought the Kennedy tax cut. Last spring, drawing on his experience in 1956 as chairman of an investigation of campaign financing, he led the liberals' struggle to repeal the Long Campaign Financing Act. But now he and Sen. Long are writing a bill with a new approach to funding campaigns...
EUGENE McCARTHY'S approach to Presidential politics was startling in conception, magical in impact, darkly unpredictable in outcome. In person and on television, McCarthy's square features, rugged voice and slightly receding hairline spelled nothing so well as "President." And while the country hasn't actually had this image in the White House since Franklin Roosevelt, Americans still know it when they see it. It gives them pause, which in McCarthy's case was half the battle: once listened to, his message came across with unmistakable intelligence, groping caution and unimpeachable patriotism...
DESPITE problems, technique was good enough so that the music was presumably moving along as Buswell intended, and his approach was ill-suited to Bach. Rhythm in Bach grows from phrasing, not phrasing from meter; the over-all shape results from the growth of phrases rather than from dynamics or metric energy. The performance struck me as metrical in its phrasing, and in places, the bass line was simply un-phrased...
Characteristic of the Warren Center's general approach, the volume concluded with seven brief "essay reviews" of books that, according to co-editors Bailyn and Fleming, "either in themselves change the perspective on significant issues in American history or that provide the occasion for a general re-assessment of such issues...
...that such developments at Harvard and in American universities had led in a distinctly non-Marxist (not to say anti-Marxist) direction were more to the point. For it was precisely a serious explanation of such developments in American intellectual life which I sought in my questioning. The Marxist approach stresses social conflict, the primacy of economic life and the role of the common man in the workings of society and in social change. What in American society and in the social position of American intellectuals can account for the short shrift which such an immensely valuable approach has received...