Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not you care for the allegory, "Berlin Express" is still an unusual and interesting film. Hollywood has combined its own mastery of technique in moviemaking with the mature semi-documentary approach so often used to advantage in British films and has produced a picture that brings along with its message a realistic portrayal of Germany as it is today...
Piecemeal Approach. "Western Union" was one of the commonest phrases for the unity which men were trying for in 1948. The phrase was Ernie Bevin's. He had floated it out on the air in January, without ever quite defining it. A fortnight ago at a private gathering, somebody asked Bevin just what he had meant. He replied passionately and well for 25 minutes, leaving his hearers under the double impression that he 1) believed in it with all his heart, and 2) did not know what "it" was. But one thing was clear enough: some kinds of unification...
...Sons" is hardly escapist fare. Watching the defense of a man break down under the weight of his own guilt is more conducive to morbid fascination than to light-hearted pleasure. The players approach their task with all due reverence for its theme...
...vanishing art: "You start with a detailed charcoal drawing and then paint over that-the most distant thing first. If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day. The distant figures may be done in a week. It gets more difficult as you approach the foreground-a large canvas may take four to six months altogether- but the most economical way is to finish as you go. At least that's what / was taught...
Retiring A.C.P. President Hugh J. Morgan, of Nashville, Tenn., gave the 2,500 physicians a gloomy going-away present. He reminded his hearers of Cicero's high opinion of physicians ("In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men"). But now, he said, physicians are losing the public's respect by commercialization-a tendency that has increased over the past 25 years...