Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cole's approach to landscape was typical of his day, which was also the age of William Cullen Bryant and James Fenimore Cooper. Seven years before his death in 1848, Cole explained that "American scenes are not destitute of historical and legendary associations; the great struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten...
...dream about." At another point, when he was worried about his sexual adequacy, a college girl enticed him into intimate relations. In the depths of his despair and humiliation women suddenly appeared from nowhere-they were his for the asking, and no one he had the courage to approach seems to have refused him. When he was growing seriously ill in Chicago, a former high-school teacher "unaccountably appeared with the proposal that he spend the following year at Indiana University at her expense." When he was nearly starving in New York City, he was picked up by another...
...Since this was the case, it is disappointing that the book does not go into greater detail on Dreiser's political activities, his adherence to Communism before his death, or into the bumbling and fumbling of the writing of his later years. The deeper loss that his approach involves is the loss of emotion that would give meaning to the facts so carefully presented...
...neither read nor seen "Richard III" prior to Monday night and consequently my approach to this interpretation may have benefited from lack of prejudice as much as it suffered from lack of tutoring. The management has supplied each ticket-holder with a simplified genelogical chart of the Houses of Lancaster and York, along with a short history of England in Richard's time, but I found the play still hopelessly confusing to follow. This would be of no importance if the play contained enough compensating poetry, but it is a procession of blood and rhetoric, both a little too thick...
...after Christmas a new development struck at the work-pattern of the efficient and adamant gate-closers. The College opened a bright, new, functional library and said it was specifically for the undergraduate. And the undergraduate dutifully hurried over to take a look. Freshmen found a long but adequate approach sweeping in past Widener and Houghton; upperclassmen found a large steel gate. Some trudged sadly along the well-worn route swinging almost over to Lehman Hall. Less determined students shuffled down to Cronin's or back to their rooms. Lamont attendance began to fall perceptibly...