Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara agonized over whether to step up the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam, one presidential adviser consistently argued that the bombing of the petroleum depots around Hanoi and Haiphong was vital to the U.S. war effort. Now that the President has accepted that approach-also urged on him by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the insistent adviser's influence in the Ad ministration's inner circle has increased considerably. The man: Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, the garrulous, determined special assistant who three months ago inherited part of McGeorge Bundy...
Expectedly, there were some cool clerical appraisals of Graham's showmanship and "assembly-line approach" to salvation. Anglican Bishop John (Honest to God) Robinson paid tribute to Graham's personal integrity but dismissed his style as "the old-fashioned fundamentalist Gospel, pounding away at sin and bombarding us with texts. This is not evangelism." Summing up for the Anglican Church Times, the Rev. Cecil Northcott charged that "the Graham crusade is a redundant anachronism in a world which demands that its Christianity shall be seen in community life, in social justice, and racial honesty. To be 'saved...
...critic and composer who tried his hand at everything from chorales and concertos to musical comedy and movie scores; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Taylor the composer was subsidized by Taylor the newspaper critic, radio commentator and author (Of Men and Music) who forever delighted readers with his breezy, irreverent approach to the art. "The test of music," he once said, "is not the mathematics behind it, but how it sounds"-a test he applied to himself in some 50 highly popular works, most notably two romantic operas, The King's Henchman (1927) and Peter Ibbetson (1931), both performed...
...things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach to the analysis of differential equations at the Institute...
...Like It just before he was able to fashion Twelfth Night, the last of his pure comedies and the only one that arguably achieves perfection. Our Stratfordians have to date offered two highly flawed productions of this priceless play; perhaps they too will be able to approach perfection on the third...