Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today's teachers must begin to realize the importance of feeling; the purely intellectual approach to learning is only second best," he said...
Dick Nixon has indeed undergone some retouching. As he ended his initial New Hampshire foray and flew to Wisconsin to prepare for the nation's second primary on April 2, Nixon seemed to have shucked many of his old liabilities-most notably his humorlessness and his guarded approach to the press. Self-confident and almost too self-effacing, Nixon wowed packed houses from Green Bay and Appleton to Stevens Point and Fond...
...hours at the controls of everything from early Fokkers to the latest DC-8 jets. Retired because of age in 1961, Merrill still flies "everything I can get my hands on. I sneak out pretty near every night with some of the boys and make an instrument approach in a DC-8 or Boeing 727. There's nothing against that, as long as it isn't a scheduled flight...
...sharp contrast to the low-key U.S. approach was North Korea's pugnacity. Speaking in Pyongyang, the capital, Soviet-trained Premier Kim II Sung warned that he was readying his military machine for a full-scale war that "may break out again at any moment." Reinforcing Kim's threat, the Soviet Union ordered a powerful 13-vessel squadron into the Sea of Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing...
Because of the large number of paintings in the exhibition, some limitation of focus is helpful in their evaluation. One approach is to concentrate on the Blocks' very rich collection of portraits, including Degas' distant "Young Man with a Hat," Seurat's study for a "Woman Powdering Herself," the famous Matisse "The Young Sailor" (version two) and the even better-known van Gogh "Self-Portrait," showing his bandaged ear. In addition, there are three sensitive Vuillards, one a "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" in a style set between the thick modelling of Manet and the pointillist inheritance of Impressionism...