Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...district's difficulties yield to the dramatic plan approach so easily. Even the most efficient treatment plant faces the problem of "sludge disposal"--what to do with the stuff that is taken out of sewage being treated. The conventional approach has been to deposit the good in what are euphemistically called "sanitary lagoons,"but these are understandably unpopular with the lucky ones who live nearby...
...some critics, however, the school's moves into new fields is still mere toe-dipping. Many feel that the traditional Harvard Law approach needs modification. Not surprisingly, the students themselves file many of the most damning complaints; last year their organized gripes sparked the forming of a student-faculty committee. It has still to submit specific proposals, but this year, in response to the committee, second-year students for the first time do not have any required courses...
Dean Griswold himself is not satisfied with Harvard Law's current approach. As part of the two day sesquicentennial celebration, he sounded off on one lack that he considers paramount. Said Griswold: "It has often been said, for a smile, that legal education sharpens the mind by narrowing it. To my mind, there is more truth to this than we have been willing to admit. The methods fostered at this school and widely adopted elsewhere do have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however...
...embarrassed moments, the early confidence had gone. The actress responded like a Miss Universe candidate who had just popped a shoulder strap. Nevertheless, she returned the next day for more of the shame. Though Strasberg's famous pop-psych approach to acting has lately been criticized as much as it has been acclaimed in the U.S., the French have welcomed him as though he were Stanislavsky reincarnate. "The event of the theatrical season," trumpeted Le Monde, and 443 theater folk from 26 countries plunked down $60 each to get the Strasberg pitch. Among the students who enrolled...
Beckett's men worked 80-to 90-hour weeks, applying Ford's "triangulation" approach to every aspect of the project. Similar components from a Ford car (Anglia) and two competitors (Volkswagen and Minx) were compared to determine the best possible combination. Says Beckett: "We always analyze the best in competitive products right down to the spot welds-you can always learn something from them...