Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new team, the Star had gained in ads and circulation (from 98,000 to 141,000), but costs had gone up too. The weekly deficit had risen from $15,000 to $30,000. The Star had suffered from PM's reddish complexion and amateurish approach. It had been stuck with distribution contracts, and wire-service costs that it could not afford ($72,000 a year...
...want my inventions to act, to lose their identity. What I expect from my colors and forms is that they do something they don't want to do themselves. For instance, I want to push a green so it looks red." Isn't that a rather experimental approach? "Yes, all my work is experimental...
...thinks of him as a brilliant dilettante. Actually, as Kiss Me, Kate proves better than any of his previous work, he is one of the most thoroughly trained musicians among U.S. popular composers. He is as painstaking a craftsman as any. He is no less rigorously professional in his approach to what his good friend, Actor Clifton Webb, calls "the perfectly regulated life...
...feels that the major reason for U.S. failure in China is that, in following an anti-Communist policy, we have blindly overlooked some local factors. "We need to develop a local approach to each area, in order to ally ourselves with the forces of progressive social change, rather than against them," he claimed...
...proper proportion of course, and that, it is hoped, by the beginning of next term. The ordinary needs of the undergraduates will thus be satisfactorily provided for. Further, Widener will be open to Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates on exactly the same basis, for special research. If the fundamental approach of the authorities is accepted, as for the time it must be, this is a perfectly equitable arrangement...