Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertainment program will also include a play with a Yule-time theme and strolling carolers. Traditionally the play is chosen from the ranks of recognized pieces, and thus has ranged in approach from humor to tragedy. Last year the middle English nativity play, "The Second Shepherds Play," was presented...
...line with its practice of treating the student as an adult, Harvard has, in the past, seemed to favor the let-the-student-take-the-initiative approach to the problem of advising. There are situations, however, in which this system fails. Despite the old adage, what one doesn't know can hurt...
This sense of self-importance, this humorlessness, is characteristic of an approach to criticism--and to fiction--that has no vitality and that is typical of the Advocate. A magazine recently said that there are "images of linear discreteness" in William Faulkner's fiction. That magazine was a literary quarterly but it might just as well have been the Advocate. So the Advocate's editors should think about Faulkner's answer when the New York Times asked him what he thought of that piece of criticism. "Look," he said, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary...
...book, Island of Death (J. J. Augustin; $7), Dr. Werner Wolff, professor of psychology at Bard College, N.Y., tackles the problem with a "psychological" approach. There is plenty of scattered information about Easter Island, says Dr. Wolff. Why not fit the pieces together and use psychological insight to reconstruct the island's ancient culture? Then the mystery of the statues might be solved...
Leighton was unprepared to predict any possible approach that the University authorities might take towards Leigh's recent activities...