Word: approached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the impact of those forces, they produce a student body which is subtle as Sphinx, many-sided and totally lacking in unity of approach or opinion on almost any subject. This breakdown of the undergraduates into group after self-sufficient group is probably the most significant psychological factor in the College today. Schizophrenia, it might be called, and it is unique and potent: not even the most basic conception of "school spirit" serves in Cambridge as it does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind...
...Individual education could be dealt with more significantly . . . if we removed the entire mechanical engine of credits, grade points, formal examinations and required courses. This arithmetical approach . . . values accuracy and correctness above imagination...
...save dollars, Britain, the biggest foreign buyer of U.S. flue-cured tobacco (54% of all flue-cured exports last year), abruptly canceled $25 million of scheduled purchases. The price, which had already fallen after earlier cancellations, began to approach the level at which the Government is required to support it. Tobacco markets shut down while Washington made up its mind what to do. Then Washington showed why anyone who gambles in commodities has the odds-and the Government-on his side...
...unions, Professor Selekman asks that they modify the language they inherited from the struggle for recognition, and also that they be careful in their approach to discriminate between individual companies in each industry...
...third story, "fadeout," does not approach the standard of competence of the rest of the fiction. The author utilizes flashbacks in a most depressing and trite manner, to show a man's supposed thoughts while he is dying of a war wound. Perhaps the last few words will give a clue to the category to which this short story belongs: "But the whirlpool began to suck him down again. It was so comfortable. So easy. Sinking back, fading...fading...