Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another approach is the British "grid," calling for the creation of several self-contained neighborhoods-complete with schools, theaters, shopping centers and parks. Along these lines, Mayor John Lindsay's task force on urban design suggests that New York City, rather than pack even more skyscrapers into midtown Manhattan and Wall Street, should create a major business district along Harlem's 125th Street. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, in fact, has encouraged the move by ordering the construction of a 23-story state office building for Harlem. But New York, typically at odds with itself, is also building...
...Public. As Castello's successor, Costa e Silva is taking a new approach to Brazil's economic problems. Where Castello blamed excess demand for the country's inflationary troubles and tried to limit the amount of money in circulation, Costa's government is putting emphasis on industrial development to help meet the demand. Thus, in a recent three-year plan setting down guidelines for his administration, Costa called for an "acceleration of development" first and "containment of inflation" second. All that Costa seeks is "relative stability of prices" and "inflation inferior to the year before." Such...
...South Korea to Finland. Nowhere has it found more ardent followers than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
...choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, is unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert is the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapts most effectively the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
Francis J. McNamara, director of the HUAC, called the Councils statement a "backhanded approach to frustrate the law." Students might answer that their universities have an obligation to protect students from unwarranted intrusions into their lives...