Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EMILY DICKINSON (CBS). Copland's song cycle deals with the same subjects as Mahler's Das Lied: love, death, nature. But there are no romantic mists to invite reverie in Dickinson's crystalline verses, and Copland's music shades from an impressionistic to a literal approach. Macabre chords open the song I Felt a Funeral in My Brain; a fast-rising whir of melody introduces the line "There came a Wind like a Bugle." Sung by Soprano Adele Addison with the composer at the piano...
Renovating Islam. Potentially, the most fruitful ground for discussion, ecumenists suggest, is not theology but the search for common religious solutions to pressing worldly problems. A notable advocate of this approach is the Benedictine monastery of Toumliline, in Morocco's Middle Atlas mountains, which for eleven years has sponsored annual meetings of Moslem and Christian thinkers from dozens of countries. The sessions deal broadly and impartially with major contemporary themes, such as the problems of youth and cities. Purpose of the meetings is to encourage Islam to face these issues from the perspective of its own traditions. Says...
...press, as an effective "salesman," and his meteoric rise in politics (he left the DPW in the summer of 1966 to run for Lieutenant Governor, won his race, and is now seriously mentioned as a possible candidate for Governor in 1970) is often attributed to his personable, but persistent approach...
...young planners, though professing to be unconvinced of the need for an Inner Belt. were convinced that there would be a highway. Given the Belt's inevitability, their approach was to look for the "best possible" route through the city, a route other than Brookline-Elm. Their opposition to Brookline-Elm reflected a shift in values from those of an earlier generation of planners: where earlier planners had satisfied themselves that Brookline-Elm was a good route because it went through low-value real estate, the new planners saw the highway as a destroyer of neighborhood stability (and the neighborhood...
...advocated a "systems analysis" of human behavior -- an approach including behavior -- an approach including both analysis of organic behavior and an attempt to trace the origins of genetic knowledge...