Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, the Cambridge Committee for the Inner Belt, a group of private planners that first prodded the Council into seeking specific alternatives, is worried about the City's approach...
...appreciation for the excellent interpretative account of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle in the Art section, Jan. 7. The tribute to Architect Walter Netsch is richly merited. All of us at the university have been pleased with the concept of design and the imaginative approach to problem-solving that Mr. Netsch and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill gave to the requirements in constructing a major "commuter" campus within a limited site and the need for operational economy and efficiency...
Consistent Sounds. Sullivan's system requires children to spend their first eight weeks learning the alphabet from their teacher. But they are not taught all the sounds of all the letters. His "structural linguistics" approach keeps children from the confusing phonetic inconsistencies of the language (the 40 different sounds conveyed by the letter a, for example) until they grasp the fact that in general, letters correspond to sounds...
Principles as Tools. Fletcher argues that situation ethics avoids the pitfalls of other approaches to morality. In both the natural-law morality of Roman Catholics and the scriptural law of Protestantism, he argues, principles become inflexible and "obedience to prefabricated 'rules of conduct' is more important than freedom to make responsible decisions." On the other hand, the antinomian, or nonprincipled, approach of the existentialists leads to anarchy and to moral decisions that are "random, unpredictable, erratic, quite anomalous...
Fletcher argues that his approach is applicable to social policy and is no different from that of Jesus, who rejected the complexities of Jewish law and reduced his own ethical teaching to a twofold command to love God and neighbor. Situationism, claims Fletcher, is also implicit in the thought of such formative Christian thinkers as Augustine ("Love with care and then what you will, do") and Luther, who stated: "When the law impels one against love, it should no longer be a law." He feels that situationism, new or old, "is a reflection in the field of ethics...