Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar world will be neither stable nor orderly. Some countries will be heavily in debt, while others enjoy vast spendable resources. What they term the "delicate" Keynes-White mechanism is not designed to bridge the gap between these two extremes. As an alternative, the bankers advance the "key country approach." Most of the world's trade, they argue, is carried on in pounds and dollars. Therefore, the dollar-pound rate should first be stabilized, providing a nucleus to which other currencies could anchor at proper levels...
...Writers. In my opinion, one man stands above and apart from all these things. He is Mikhail Sholokhov, the nearest approach to a man of genius in Russia's great tradition. The author of And Quiet Flows the Don and The Soil Upturned stays in his native village of Veshenskaya and writes. He does not come to Moscow to spend the writers' tremendous royalties and reap his great honors. He refuses to become the president of the Writers' Un ion, because he is too busy - writing. He writes for no censorship except truth as he sees...
Henry King's direction and Lamar Trotti's scenario are above average, but both dangerously approach the common flag-waving touch. It is the essentially accurate re-creation of history with successful balance of insight and showmanship that makes "Wilson" first-rate. It rests on its merits of candor and taste as a stirring epic of the United States...
Goodbye Parangaricutiro. A black, craggy pile, the moving lava constantly cracks chunks off its crust, exposing a gooey, glowing mass underneath (temperature: 1,994° F.). Its approach sets houses afire. Traveling about seven yards an hour, the glacier-like ooze has already spread more than seven miles and engulfed two villages-Paricutin and Parangaricutiro...
...stirred up his pupils by taking them to theaters, whorehouses, insane asylums, wakes, where they startled those present by climbing on chairs or stretching out on the floor to get a novel point of view. Out of this free-style approach came some spectacular work, part of it by artists now nationally known in Mexico. One outstanding Reyes graduate is the water-colorist and engraver, José Maria Servin...