Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject of Kluckhohn's address was "Adjustment and Adaptation: An Anthropological Approach." He drew a distinction between adaptive behavior with the sole purpose of helping the individual and the group to survive, and adjustive behavior, which reduces tension and decreases motivation in the individual...
What to do? Just go on living, building, and waiting in tranquillity. Conventional protection against old-fashioned disasters like "tornadoes, fires and earthquakes" would do some good. "The sound approach," said Rear Admiral Parsons, "is to add atomic blast and radiation flash to the list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life...
...green stone National' Palace, President Juan José Arévalo, once the Legion's staunch supporter, had also accepted its demise. He was still half-heartedly chasing his old dream of a democratic Central American confederation, but he had shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio. Guatemalan student delegations were hustled off to both countries...
Last year, Max Beloff, who has written a book on American history (Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy), made a six-month tour of U.S. campuses* to find out. There were, he admitted, a few things that pleased him, such as the exhaustive approach to Russian studies (not matched in Britain) of Columbia University's Russian Institute. Yet on the whole, he reported in the current issue of Britain's Universities Quarterly, U.S. higher education offers more to be pitied than copied...
...luxury approach which limited travel by air. Trippe proclaims in his high and earnest voice: "The average man has been the prisoner of two keepers, time and money." Having conquered time, Trippe hopes to cut fares so that anybody with a two-week vacation -the Detroit auto mechanic and the Oak Park schoolmarm-can "spend it abroad. His eventual goal: a $200 round trip to London, with other foreign fares to match. He is ready to cut the present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will...