Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rarely do super productions turn out to be great pictures, and "If I Had a Million," currently showing at the University, is no exception. But while most productions which boast a "galaxy of stars" fail through conflicts of acting, this one lacks anything which might approach unity of direction. The superb cast of directors, headed by Ernst Lubitsch, Paramount's ace, leaves the minds of their audience much the same feeling as that created by the architecture of Adams House: a meaningless hodge-podge of more or less attractive pieces...
...Tutorial System marks a definite educational approach toward the ideals of a changing civilization," stated George Herbert Palmer, '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus, in a recent interview. "It tends to put the student on a firm moral basis as an individual, and so far as it does this, it reflects a growing tendency which has colored every phase of modern life in the world of today. This tendency is characterized by a growing mistrust by people in the theory of competition...
...more scientific approach to revolutions...
...desk. He is a mighty hunter, a fervent fisherman, a famed cook. These and other chiefs, the Royal Family of the Industry, were proud of their changing wares last week. For while their kingdom has reached maturity and stability there is one change that has never changed-the continual approach to cheaper and better transportation. And prouder than the Royal Family were the Industry's engineers. The Automobile Show is really their show. The new models on display were dissected a thousand times by their prying minds. Dignified men lay prostrate to gaze at the marvels...
...engineers are the Industry's prime-movers ; only constant change will appease them. None of the automotive technologists is well known to the public or cares to be. But the one most people know about is one whose whole approach to engineering is based on his credo of "change" supplemented by a belief that nothing can be taken for granted, that "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere with progressive things." He is a tall lank man who has been found to resemble both Ichabod Crane and Abraham Lincoln. He is Charles Franklin...