Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against us," and then use up all the rest of our time hating. Hating the Negroes, George III, the Jews, capital, labor, Russia and any other person or nation which we know only through prejudice. The result seems to be that we have no energy or time left to approach our real problems intelligently...
...necessary). To citizens haunted by the U.S.'s massive debt and tlie inflationary influences of an unbalanced budget, it looked good. But to politicians, a compensatory fiscal program has no campaign sex appeal. By election time Congressmen may decide that a tax cut is a better campaign approach...
...accomplishments of the Big Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian reparations arid the Balkan satellite peace treaties. But the central question was what kind of Europe the victors should raise from the ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report...
...Major. In the Music Shed on the greensward a Brazilian conductor, who spoke no English, sign-signaled a student orchestra through a too-briskly gaited Afternoon of a Faun. Koussevitzky observed: "Maybe fine conductor for Brazilian music but he needs to be teached to change approach for European music." In Tanglewood's garage, a 40-member four-part chorus, struggling through a Hindemith chanson, was having soprano trouble. Conductor Robert Shaw pleaded: "No, girls, Wa ta is so wrong. Listen to the way the tenors do it ... I want just a great big C sharp...
Last week Dr. Read had found a disciple in the U.S. A New Jersey doctor, Blackwell Sawyer of Lakewood, announced (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that he had tried Dr. Read's approach on 168 patients, with success in nine out of ten cases. Comments of mothers: "the happiest moment of my life," "it did not amount to anything...