Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close of the firing, one really constructive thing had been accomplished: McElroy agreed that he would be happy to make a few clarifying technical word changes in the plan, would, for example, not object if individual service chiefs and service secretaries continued to have the right to approach Congress with complaints. "Our feet," said he, "are not set in concrete on this...
Every so often an administrative coup occurs in the art world in which some large-scale exhibition gets arranged, not according to school, cult, period, or what-have-you, but along lines of that universal artistic ideal which Malraux termed "the museum without walls." The old categorical approach is usually used, however, if not out of sheer inertia, at least for convenience's sake. For the current exhibition at Busch-Reisinger, however, the old method is most appropriate, for there are precious few canvases in the whole lot which transcend their particular philosophy, genre or gestalt...
...their problems the young people of post World War I. Instead of setting up shop at Gertrude Stein's or Pamplona, we are setting up shop inside ourselves, and watch out, brother, we are going to come up with some great literature. This is, I think, an academic approach. All the talk we hear from sources such as The Editor neglects the existence of those of us who don't expect to spend our lives within the confines of a library stall. In short it is a glorification of the academic mind, and however nice it is to see every...
...heroine was English and its hero Scottish. He exploded: "I cannot forgive Mme. de Staël for having disparaged the French people." She was already banished from Napoleon's capital; when she appealed to return, he made her exile perpetual and ordered that she might not approach closer to Paris than 40 French leagues (100 miles...
...complete affinity with the spirit, and more especially with the rhythm of the music. Conducting a program which consisted of an almost bewildering array of styles, she shifted in and out with complete ease and sureness. The depth of her musical understanding was illustrated by the modulations of approach within each composer, bringing out the enormous variety possible in a group of Monteverdi, or in a Bach Cantata...