Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider this selection from a recent column in the New York Times by James Reston, America's most influential reporter, and one of its best. Reston is discussing the controversy between Senator Robert Kennedy '40 and President Johnson over the sincerity of the American approach to negotiation in the war in Vietnam...
Many of the journalists appeared skeptical about Fairbank's historical perspective approach. One of them asked him what the press could do along this line...
...work in which Shure's intellectual approach worked the least was Chopin's Sonata in b flat minor, Op. 35, the one that contains the famous Marche funebre. One of the composer' masterpieces, it dates from that period of his life when he was still in the first heat of his love affair with George Sand. As well-made as it is, the work pouring of melody that is sapped of life by an attempt to bring out every element of compositional logic. After all, this music is French. As in the Schubert, Shure was at times heavy-handed, especially...
...aided in understanding the gospel by the testimony of the church from earlier ages and from many lands." The Westminster Confession fits in its original 1646 context. To see behind Westminster the struggle of the Scots and English for political and ecclesiastical control encourages a new approach to politics today...
...history by the cultural forms of its environment...The church in its mission encounters the religions of men and in that encounter becomes conscious of its own human character as a religion." The parallels the Christian finds between other religions and his own, it says, means that he "must approach all religions with openness and respect." And since the church understands the gift of God in Christ is for all men, it is therefore "commissioned to carry the gospel to all men whatever their religion may be and even when they profess none...