Word: approaches
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...council's most conservative members, will now be sitting in the front of the room with the gavel in his hand for the next two years, and the best word to describe the liberal's loss might be disappointment. First, it is disappointing that the liberals did not approach former Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci for his support and back him for another term, because Vellucci's voting record has been consistently on the liberal side of issues. Perhaps it would have been wiser for the liberals to have made Vellucci their choice and struck up the kind of bargains with...
Because his problems have been redefined as illnesses, argues Lasch, the man on the street has been freed from responsibility for running his own life and raising his children. Yet the modern social scientific approach has also increased man's sense of responsibility, for it suggests he can solve his problems only through the use of scientific techniques and that it is therefore incumbent on him to master these techniques. The socialization of reproduction has succeeded, argues Lasch, in "making people unable to provide for their own needs without the supervision of trained experts." Although capitalism still lauds the family...
Byker said the special sections, which began last fall, provide a new approach to expository writing. Although the classes teach students to write on the subject matter of the affiliated courses, the Expos sections have separate grading and assignments, and are usually separately staffed, Byker said...
...James Vorenberg '49, professor of Law, and Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, worked on the sentencing portion of the bill, and yesterday both viewed the curtailment of judicial discretion as an important, if still inadequate, step in the right direction. Dershowitz said the provision represents a "major new approach to sentencing, potentially the most important law reform of the decade...
...more gifted students is to be reminded of the difficulties of attribution. They imitated just what, one would think, was inimitable in his style: Ferdinand Bol, for instance, got Rembrandt's quick hooking line down so pat that he reproduced it unconsciously. They could not, however, approach the beautiful, sure clarity with which Rem brandt set down, in a few streaks and slashes of bistre, a windmill facing the estuary from an old bulwark of Amsterdam. Nor could they rival the depth of Rembrandt's grasp of gesture, expression and character. A drawing like Saskia 's Lying...