Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD OF CHARLES IVES (Columbia). As a boy, Ives heard two town bands approach from different directions and march past each other, tooting different tunes full-force. The folksy spirit of band music, combined with the thorny complexities of conflicting voices and rhythms, characterizes his work in this excellent sampler. Eugene Ormandy conducts Three Places in New England; Leonard Bernstein, Washington's Birthday; and Leopold Stokowski, the longest piece, The Robert Browning Overture...
...that Joey Bishop, a "hot" nightclub comic who comes on strong, was bound to start out at a disadvantage in audience ratings when he went on the late-night air for ABC against "cool" Johnny Carson. He was right; and when Bishop decided to switch to a low-key approach, his ratings improved...
...place outside of church. At numerous Catholic colleges, chaplains will hear confessions in their own rooms, or even while walking on campus. Many priests no longer insist that penitents recite a detailed account of their sins, prefer freeform discussions about their wrongdoing. Occasionally, devout Catholic husbands and wives will approach a priest together for a joint examination of their spiritual failings, prior to individual, private confessions...
...Divisive. The biggest danger in the drive for teacher power is its divisiveness, setting teacher against school board, teacher against administrator. The obvious answer is cooperation and a spirit of partnership. One approach is that of the Pittsburgh schools, where a teacher-dominated professional advisory commission consults with the superintendent on all matters relevant to the education of students. Pittsburgh teachers even get extra pay to develop new ideas on curriculums and texts. In Chicago, union representatives meet monthly with the school superintendent to discuss educational policy and sit on curriculum committees...
...Tony's father took him to the factory, and the boy could hardly tear himself away from its airy, oily expanses, its machinery and materials. "There's no question," says he, "but that there's a direct connection between the factory, my little house, and my approach to sculpture...