Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's approach to culture-involving the careful engineering of a creative resurgence-was entrusted to Andre Malraux, Western Europe's only Minister of Culture. Malraux's greatest achievements have been largely those of a museum curator-the staging of highly .successful retrospectives (Picasso and Vermeer), the lending of treasures abroad, the sandblasting of Paris' soot-stained architecture. Beyond that, he sought to dot the French provinces with Maisons de la Culture, designed to bring theater and art to outlying cities and towns. While the idea was not without merit, many of the theatrical directors Malraux...
...generally pay little attention to "the blue-collar blokes." Moreover, the T.U.C. is a loose conglomeration of strong individual unions. Since June, Feather has been jawboning his union chiefs on the virtues of labor discipline on the shop floor. His main argument: if the T.U.C.'s voluntary approach fails, Labor will be defeated at the polls, leaving the unions at the not-so-tender mercies of the Tories...
...hard-line approach advocated by the trustees might have averted some of Cornell's problems last spring. But because the highly rhetorical report fails to recognize and identify some of the underlying causes of student discontent, it may well fall short of its goal of promoting campus tranquillity...
...interest-free loans to musicians and he gives intense loyalty to those who work for him. "If I have an act I think is good but that hasn't made it yet," he says, "I put it on a bill with the Who or the Jefferson Airplane. This approach to my business has gotten me a good reputation nationwide, but here in San Francisco the kids say: 'We love the music and we love the Fillmore, but we hate Graham because he's a f-ing capitalist...
DeVore explained his statement with one of the Joint Committee's two reasons for keeping Stauder: "Even a person who might disagree fundamentally with Jack's goals or approach, would nevertheless feel that it's inhumane and unfair to fire him summarily at this late date...