Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medicine, thinks Maine, may be on the wrong track in its general approach to alcoholism and insanity. He suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
...measures are considered necessary to trim labor's "monopoly." This line of argument overlooks the fact that while organized labor trebled its ranks under the protection of the Wagner and Norris-LaGuardia acts, violence and extra-legal actions have been dropped from the arsenals of those unions that can approach the conference table with bargaining power approximately equal to that of management...
...Koussevitzky's interpretation may be subject to personal criticism, but it is a warm, lyric approach that does full justice to the cyclical construction and almost earthy quality of the music. For, despite name, the Requiem is not sorrowful or morbid, but confident and reassuring. Particularly fine were the male voices in the great fortissimo, "Behold, all flesh . . . ," and Radcliffe attained equal stature in the flowing fourth section and the final fugue. The impassioned soprano solos of Miss Frances Yeend lent the note of high personal achievement needed to round out a very satisfying concert...
...need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves closer to uncharted territory. This approach, President Conant believes, will show the walls and moats around any advance in science, how these hazards can delay scientific progress for as much as 150 years, and the various ways by which they can be overcome. In other words, "On Understanding Science" is, as the title-page asserts...
...transportation is years away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until we learn how. A safety device you don't know is worse than no safety device...