Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President remained unwontedly silent for a day at his ranch, where he is resting for this week's scheduled surgery, then decided on a philosophic approach. "I would be less than frank if I didn't tell you that I am sorry we lost any Democratic seats," he said. The losses "somewhat exceeded" his expectations, he continued, and would make it "more difficult for any new legislation." But he noted, with unusual magnanimity, that perhaps it was a good thing after all "to see a healthy and competent existence of the two-party system...
Last week in the House of Commons, Wilson revealed the cautious conclusion: a decision for "a new high-level approach" to the Common Market "to see whether the conditions exist-or do not exist-for fruitful negotiations." His first move, he said, would be to call a meeting of the leaders of the seven European Free Trade Association nations, some of which, like Denmark and Austria, are if anything more anxious than Britain to link up with the Six. After that, Wilson plans to pay personal visits to all of the capitals of the Six to press Britain...
...Conscience? Paul thus rejected, for the present at least, the recommendations submitted last June by his pontifical commission on birth control. A majority of the commission, headed by seven cardinals, proposed that the church take a new tack in its theology of marriage that would sidestep the natural-law approach of Pius XI and Pius XII. Under their norms, any means of birth control apart from the rhythm method and sexual abstinence was said to violate God's inflexible rules for human behavior by frustrating the principal purpose of the sex act, procreation...
...community, SDS had informed the Institute -- that is, Frank and Neustadt -- that it intended to pressure them into either accepting a proposal which had already been rejected or suffering unspecified consequences. Both Frank and Neustadt, who consider themselves to be fair but hard-nosed individuals, were antagonized by this approach...
This Cubist idea inspired Smith, in works like Structure of Arches (1939), to break down the elements of his subject into two dimensional forms and reassemble them into a visually two dimensional whole which nonetheless occupies three dimensional space. In Structure of Arches, Smith uses a very different stylistic approach than in Saw Head. He composed Saw Head out of found objects whereas he designed the parts for Structure of Arches ahead of time and fabricated them to fit his design. In addition, Structure of Arches has no organic allusion, as Saw Head does. Structure of Arches is very angular...