Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allies, Not Adversaries. When pressed to define his political outlook, Brooke offers such portmanteau labels as "creative moderate" or "a liberal with a conservative bent." While accepting the humanitarian goals of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, he faults the Administration's approach to helping the poor as "aspirin?it relieves the pain, but it doesn't cure." Both domestic-welfare and foreign-aid policies, he reasons, should be oriented more toward self-help and less toward the dole approach. "If you give a man a handout," he maintains, "you establish a chain of dependence and lack of self-respect that...
Unlike dozens of G.O.P. candidates elsewhere, Brooke did not camouflage his party label. He made no secret of his belief that the G.O.P. needs a far more positive approach than it has had in the past. He refused to support Barry Goldwater's candidacy in 1964, and early in 1966 he published The Challenge of Change, a prickly book that castigated the G.O.P.'s approach to the electorate for the past 50 years. Brooke's thesis was not so much that Republican proposals have been wrong, as that "we have often had no solutions at all. We give the appearance...
...combining the aural approach in the first semester with an emphasis on reading and writing in the second, Robert H. Spaethling, associate professor of German, who is planning the new program, hopes to "capitalize on the strength of both the present courses...
...criticized the current two-course approach which, he said, produces German A students who do not know a "blasted rule," and German B students who are unable to apply the grammar they have learned...
...good years," Spaethling said, "and it is dangerous to abandon an approach that has proved itself so popular. But one must guard oneself from becoming too happy with what is going...