Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of those writing about Harvard approach it with some measure of respect, but the mark of the great of the institution can best be demonstrated by the facetiousness with which some approach Harvard. For if not assured of superiority, one cannot afford to indulge in self-derision...
...name was added to the "greats" of Harvard teachers of American literature. Murdock, who had taught part of English 33 the year before, took over the survey course alone, and began as well a course in "Problems in Early American Literature" which was another departure from the English 33 approach...
Harvard's approach to the subject, by offering many courses comparing British and American writing, has kept U.S. literature in just this perspective. The distinguished men who have taught it here have done much to lift American literature from the "abominable library of hell" and set it well on the road to being ensconced in the library of quite an other place.PERRY G. E. MILLER...
European Masters of Our Time brings to Boston not only the largest collection of modern art ever exhibited in these parts, but a fresh, welcome and rare approach as well. Not arranged according to school or historical progression, each painting hangs as the artist intended it, as an expressive entity complete in itself rather than as an example of anything generic or contingent. Each master is left to speak for himself...
Terrible-tempered Texan Tommy Bolt smoldered on a short fuse all afternoon. When the crowd cheered his missed putts he began to sputter; when they jeered a flubbed approach to the eighth green he exploded into club-throwing wrath. "It was demoralizing," Bolt complained later. "I thought these people were supposed to be sportsmen...