Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broadcasting "trivial" affairs in a simple manner "so that Southern people can understand," Mrs. Alford concluded, much can be done to "approach the problems that face the South...
...talks opened on a note of extreme optimism with the Soviets' blanket proposal to end all nuclear testing, immediately and forever. The simplicity and directness of the Russians' approach to the problems of disarmament has definite propaganda value, but, as U.S. diplomats were quick to point out, it ignores all the technicalities of enforcement. The U.S. counter-proposal asked for a suspension of nuclear testing on a year to year basis, with some kind of inspection plan to enforce the test ban. It was on this point that the talks stalled, and the old suspicions appeared on both sides...
...group is interested in a serious and scientific approach to rocketry, and was willing to put in some real study, I might consider sponsoring it," Nash said. "But I'm not interested in a club which merely wants to put rockets into...
...here is Greek tragedy as it should be done, like neither a Shakespearian character study and display of verbal pyrotechnics, nor a contemporary inquest into the septic souls of one's nerve-wracked next-door neighbors. To meet with Oedipus Rex on its own grounds, you approach it like neither Hamlet nor Death of a Salesman, but rather as if it were a Solemn High Mass. It reminds us that the "play" was originally a religious ritual, after all, even if this is a spirit our own age has successfully recaptured on the stage only in Eliot's Murder...
They are all, in every sense, fundamental: in the direct mysticism of their spiritual vision, in their equally mystical approach to nature, in the intuitive spontaneity of their form. Their religion and their form are one. They make aesthetic theory superfluous, and their natural intimacy with the forces of life make our fiddling with eroticism in art trivial. In short, the works leave one with the question, What might sophistication be if this is primitive...