Word: approachement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weapons systems aside, the same is true in the equally uncertain area of foreign commitments and the deployment of forces. The approach to these essentially political problems has been essentially unchanged for 22 years. "If one should characterize American foreign policy in a sentence," Morgenthau observes in A New Foreign Policy for the United States, "one could say that it has lived during the last decade or so on the intellectual capital which was accumulated in the famous 15 weeks of the spring of 1947 when the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, fashioned...
...theories to attack compensatory education programs, such as Operation Head Start, which assume that the withered young intellect will bloom if it is properly watered. Jensen contends that if substantial IQ improvement is the goal, all such programs will fail. He proposes instead that the schools broaden their approach to accommodate all levels of intelligence. Jensen writes: "Too often, if a child does not learn the school subject matter when taught in a way that depends largely on being average or above average, he does not learn...
...meeting, Glimp said that simply letting the demonstrators stay in the building was "not a course of action without severe negative consequences." When universities take that approach--as the University of Chicago did in February--"people being acting on a weird sense of reality," Glimp said...
...open. Many people (and even the Harvard CRIMSON) have clearly seen the Corporation's role as defender of ROTC. But many of us have been prone to take the attitude: "Well, I agree with the argument theoretically; now let's drop this, and discuss something else theoretically." But this approach leads to never seeing that we're involved in a real struggle, and therefore, never fighting...
...between the various topics of conversation. Hardly talkative to begin with, they said whatever they needed as tersely as possible. Even when Tim was filming later on, he never raised his voice. I wondered whether he was merely tired after six weeks of shooting. Or whether his low-key approach to a project as emotionally charged as the making of Eleanora was an indication of something else--possibly some hidden turmoil, even some fear, that he could not let erupt...