Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...
Perhaps the least alluring covering ever devised for the female body, not excluding the Mother Hubbard, the feathers of the Harpies, or the St. Laurent trapeze, is the saggy, sorry habit of the British private-school girl. At best, the ensemble -long black woolen or cotton stockings, knickers that approach the knee, a vague navy-blue outer garment called a gym slip and a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse with a frumpy tie-makes her resemble a hockey goalie; at sorriest, a carelessly stuffed knackwurst. Cartoonist Ronald Searle immortalized the getup in his books on "St. Trinian...
...hard-working graduate may be pedantic and methodical by necessity. Concurrently, the undergraduates in a particular conference course may provide stimulation and enthusiasm--they are less hampered in their approach. Bate suggests that this antithesis--routine vs. creativity--may be intensified in conference courses because they are attended by the brightest undergraduates, but not the highest-ranking of the graduates The latter will "bop up" into the solely graduate seminars. Gilmore feels that the graduate may be "drier" because his aims are more professional, his exams more searching, his work more exacting...
...approach of final examinations and several unfortunate recent episodes lead me to warn students that they are individually responsible for a knowledge of Faculty regulations," Leighton stated. College rules prohibit possession of explosives or the playing of "boisterous music" after...
Gallerygoers who approach sculpture with high seriousness were put off at first by Greco's 7-ft., posturing Bathers, nude except for a Bikini with tight, binding bra. But Greco expects spectators to chuckle at the unexpected solemnity of their plump, vapid faces-while admiring their slender-legged charms. Says he, "They are comic figures, part of our society. They have participated in life; their participation is my theme...