Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, drier Webern-music that chattered, squeaked, moaned and repeatedly died away in cacophonous little cries. Dance matched music with some wonderfully inventive and often funny sequences of movement. In one pas de deux (set to Five Pieces, Opus 10), Balanchine has a man and a woman approach each other time and again in an elaborate effort to embrace, only to have a final miscalculation leaving them clutching at air. Vastly different in their approaches, both Balanchine and Graham were remarkably successful at illuminating Webern's sparse, mostly atonal scores-perhaps the world's unlikeliest music for dancing...
Mental Charts. Darvas' system is tailored to his job. Since he has to do trading from wherever he is dancing (he recently completed an Asian tour) he ignores tips, financial stories and brokers' letters, has never been in a broker's office. Basically, his approach is that of a chartist: he watches price and volume. But the only charts he keeps are in his head. He studies the weekly stock tables in Barren's, receives a nightly wire from his broker giving the high, low and closing of stocks he is following, as well...
...other, and it would seem more indefinite approach, is widely talked of in terms of "a more directed course than is taken under the present system" and "regularly scheduled, close work with a faculty member...
...Mort Sahl: "Our outlook is similar because we have a similar approach to many things, and because some of the same things frighten...
...memory of many of its "old boys," who have gone on to all sorts of success in life, Connecticut's Kent School still looms as New England's closest approach to a Tibetan lamasery. For years the one entrance to Kent from town was a narrow bridge spanning the Housatonic River; girls crossed it with approximately the same frequency as Martians. Inside was an austere male world of study created in 1906 by the late Rev. Frederick H. Sill, a white-robed monastic priest of the Protestant Episcopal Order...