Word: approach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, under three Presidents, the war in Viet Nam had dragged on, ever more menacing to the security of South Viet Nam, ever more increasing the U.S. commitment of men and materiel, of blood and treasure. Over the years, every other type of regular-and irregular-diplomatic approach to Hanoi had been tried-and had failed. In the last year alone, more than 200 private contacts had been initiated. Not one had produced a perceptible nod from the other side. The President and his aides have made dozens of speeches, talked to hundreds of world leaders and officials. Neither...
...bitterness among both foreign and domestic businessmen. If few of them understood the nightmarish problems that any Indian Finance Minister has to cope with, most still held high hopes for their fortunes under the new man, Calcutta Lawyer Sachindra Chaudhuri, who was expected to take a far more flexible approach. Indeed, on news of a change in the post, shares on the Indian stock exchanges staged a brisk rally...
...differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics are normally defined in terms of doctrine-papal in fallibility, Marianism, the nature of the church. But there is a difference that lies deeper than dogma: the basic approach of men to prayer and piety. It is possible, for example, that a Southern Baptist could become intellectually convinced by the claims of Catholicism. Yet, accustomed as he is to a tradition of free prayer, Bible-centered sermons and mighty hymns, he might still feel alien to a church that offers its believers private confession of sins to a priest, solemn Mass with incense...
Chafetz said that educating people against alcoholism by frightening them with the horrors of heavy drinking has been ineffective. He said that his program would take a more positive approach...
...hood appearing from a crevice to explain the finer points of Alienation and Epic Theatre. That David Wheeler and his Theatre Company of Boston have decided to do Brecht their own way is, in itself, refreshing. Describing his brilliant production of Galileo in San Francisco, Herbert Blau wrote, "In approaching Galileo quite differently -- after years of pondering Brechtian notions -- my trust is that to be irreverent is to be more faithful." Probably so, but Wheeler's approach is not so much irreverent as insipid...