Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was a time, a not too distant time, when university undergraduates preferred to take a "rational" and "realistic" view of the world situation. Disillusioned by the failure of the dream of collective security and the shadow cast by the approach of World War II, immature minds sought to escape the harsh reality of events by retreating to a speciously "realistic" ivory tower. Beguiled by the intellectual glibness of those elders who found war to be the product of profiteering, the undergraduate concluded that all war was meaningless, that international humanitarianism was only a term for national naivete, and that...
...legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented Patton with the special order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation: "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing a valuable service by placating them and removing any immediate danger of attack on the Allies' rear...
Said the London News Chronicle: "We welcome this declaration. ... It shows that the Government is making a rational and a constructive approach to the problem of Germany's future. It shows too that upon at least one vital issue of the war our policy is in line with that of Russia...
...first lecture to be given on "The Scientific Approach to Folk Song" by Bela Bartok, visiting lecturer under the Horatio Appleton Lamb Fund, which was scheduled for this Thursday, has been postponed. The series of six lectures will ordinarily meet on Thursday at 3:30 o'clock in John Knowles Paine Hall in the Music Building. Bartok will also give a program of his own music on March 26 in Sanders Theater
...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...