Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This would make conferences and delays unnecessary, might topple the Ho regime, and would permit the gradual withdrawal of ground forces without our trying to control the government we would leave behind. My own year's living among the Chinese Communists makes me believe that this approach might be worth considering...
Johnson, disturbed by the heat and depth of Congress' reaction, set about trying to calm it down. Meeting with key congressional experts on foreign af fairs and atomic energy at the White House, he emphasized the need to take a calm approach and give diplomacy every opportunity to work. And if it did not? Nobody was willing to guess just what would happen...
...planning sounds like "unAmerican, unconstitutional, and dangerous nonsense." And he agreed that the freedom of private institutions has provided much of the dynamism of higher education. But he also warned his audience of college executives that the nation "can no longer afford the luxury of an unplanned, wasteful, chaotic approach" in which freedom often means "freedom to duplicate what others could do better, to perform useless, even meretricious functions...
...secret of staying awake through A Change of Skin, the fifth novel by Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, is to approach it as if it were a long, pretentious art movie. It should be read passively, with a relaxed eye toward its techniques, composition, shifts in style. And there should be frequent trips to the popcorn machine. A cheerful open-mindedness is essential because, for all its gothic appurtenances, the novel is a free-swinging romp, a virtuoso performance by an urbane writer who exuberantly deploys a variety of literary tricks-and then plays tricks on the tricks...
...describing the development of man's sexual attitudes, Morris offers some ingenious observations. At some point in time, he says, the male of the species began to make his sexual approach from the front of the female instead of from the rear. As a result, the male was no longer provided with the immediate attraction of the female buttocks. It is in compensation for that loss, Morris insists, that women are now endowed with an enticement that no other female primate possesses: the "protuberant, hemispherical breasts" that "must surely be copies of the fleshy buttocks...