Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps because of their approach to theater as primarily a vehicle for ideas, the characterizations drawn by many of the experimental playwrights are, at best, perfunctory. As in two of the undergraduate plays presented at Yale, the characters may be little more than convenient figures from mythology--Greek, in the case of Princeton's Reflections, (by Wayne Lawson), or Christian, in Swarthmore's Walk the Circle (by Werner Honig). Sometimes, as in Mary Manning's fine adaptation of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which was staged by Mount Holyoke, the characters are not recognizable people...
...figure of American letters. Some will tell you with a note of awe that he is the long-awaited Great American Novelist who has encompassed and canned the whole realm of human experience. The opposing school brands him as ridiculously undisciplined, wordy, extravagant and completely adolescent in tone and approach. His voluminous correspondence, the greater part of which is presented in the present Scribners tome, does little to illuminate this dilemma, if indeed an artist's private life is really relevant in interpreting...
WASHINGTON, April 8--Secretary of State Dulles urged a "new approach" to foreign aid today, including a special fund to loan up to 750 million dollars a year to friendly nations on easy terms...
...reasons why. In Portsmouth, Ohio, they snipped the ribbons on Ward's first new retail store in the U.S. since 1941. It is a modern, $1,500,000, four-story affair, alive with the new-fangled customer conveniences alien to Ward's old-fashioned approach of yesteryear-Muzak, air conditioning, gleaming counter displays...
...heart of Chicago's Fort Dearborn project, a 150-acre slum-clearance development on the main northern approach to the Loop, city planners decided to build a memorial to Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. When an international architectural competition was launched, 355 entrants from 25 countries submitted their designs. Last week the jury awarded first prize and $5,000 to Architect Reginald Caywood Knight, 35, of M.I.T.'s department of architecture...