Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anniversary of its reorganization from a narrow-based group of medical specialists to a broad-based outfit with national public participation. In this period, said President Robert W. Wilkins of Boston at the commemorative meetings in San Francisco, surgery on the heart itself has leaped from a hesitant, tentative approach to one of great confidence: there is now nobody with acquired or congenital heart disease who cannot be considered as a prospect for surgery, and many cases can be helped. Equally important has been the successful attack on rheumatic fever, achieved mainly with penicillin. Ranking next, Dr. Wilkins listed ground...
...occasional attempts to introduce visual fire to her performances, she inclines to what one critic called "the battering-ram approach." This was noticeable again in her Chicago Butterfly, in which, after committing suicide, she flung the knife resoundingly to the floor and died somewhat grotesquely, crawling the width of the stage in response to Pinkerton's thrice-called "Butterfly!" But her real failing, say her harshest critics, is not one of stagecraft but of emotional involvement. While some observers recall her on the verge of tears after a performance of Butterfly, others remember her picking herself up after...
...says what he means and he means what he says. He could not have been any different if he had tried. Like many a famous soldier, he lost his early engagements: "My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor." Her approach to the problem posed by Bernard Law Montgomery was simple: "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell him to stop it." Field-Marshal Rommel did not find matters so easy...
Scott, however, commented that "a review is a commerical proposition," and "reviewers tend to string together quotable phrases." He called reviewers "leeches on creativity," denounced the use of "absolute standards," and concluded that he always used a "personal approach...
Wright's emphasis on the academic is also reflected in the doubling of the numbers of honors candidates since 1950. And not least important, he has brought a little of Harvard to Northampton by instituting "interdepartmental" courses, the content and approach of which cut across traditional departmental lines. The interdepartmental courses have their analogy here in the upper-level General Education courses...