Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy task. For the most part, British prisons were built in Victorian times, when a prisoner was locked in his cell all day and even ate his meals in it. Thus the jails are ill prepared for today's more relaxed approach, in which inmates gather in rooms converted for cafeterias, craft shops and TV. Under such conditions, surveillance is not easy and escape routes are more numerous. These days, prisoners approaching the end of their terms are generally trusted on work details outside the prison walls. There simply are not enough guards to keep an eye on everyone...
...campus. But beneath the surface sameness, the Point within the past five years has undergone a drastic, evolutionary change to match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach to discipline based on respect for the individual student as a potential leader of men. In the same spirit, a curriculum once narrowly limited to engineering and military skills has broadened into a liberal-arts program designed to stimulate critical intelligence...
...city's agony of purse and soul begins at the ghettos' doorstep; while New York's operating budget has risen 150% in ten years, the cost of social-welfare services has gone up 222%. Lindsay hopes to relieve the mounting burden by changing the basic approach of public welfare services from merely dispensing cash to emphasizing vocational training and family planning...
...reach both types of students, the teacher must aim somewhere between their interests, a necessary approach but one which satisfies neither group. Chemistry students argue that there is too little theory. Non-concentrators, the more vocal group, complain that the labs are too long, the courses too hard and not aimed at teaching the material which will be useful in later work...
There is a tone of idealism and engagement that emerges from Holton's approach to his field and its teaching. In person, he manages to hide it behind a convincing skepticism toward anything about himself, but the cynicism does not run deep. "Everyone would occasionally like to retreat into his research for two or three years," Holton reflects. "But a university appointment is a great place from which to get involved. A scientist's life here can be almost kalaidoscopic. It doesn't have to be, but the bounds of human experience can be very wide...