Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold, chiseled brilliance. The Viennese approach is easy, mellow, almost sentimental, conveying a chamber group's intimacy in place of thrust and stride...
Steelworkers' President David McDonald dismissed the offer as "the same old package," insisted that by the union's figuring the actual cash value of the offer was still no more than 24 ?. As for the softer approach to work-rule reform, McDonald said it only made it clearer that the companies were out to take away "our hard-fought gains...
...event, he said, "could shake the world," but India's plan is to take a calm approach without giving in. For him, he added, this is "one of those peak events of history when the plunge has to be taken in some direction...
Unfortunately, this deference to public opinion seems also to be inherent in his own approach towards campaigning. Throughout his stand on such varied issues as exchanges with Russia and resumption of atomic tests runs a more than natural concern with shaping his position to fit public opinion. And behind them all lurks the strong suspicion that if Nixon had not pre-empted the opposite views Rockefeller would have made them...
...approach becomes most distressingly apparent, however, in his attitude towards public opinion polls. His faith in them, going so far as to allow them to determine whether he would make an effort for the nomination, reflects his faith in the techniques of Madison Avenue. These techniques include his fine large staff which creates an aura of organization and efficiency that permeates all his activities. The staff has seldom slipped. One of the times it did was in Providence, where Rockefeller, not knowing what he was talking about, hastily supported the student loyalty affidavit in the NDEA...