Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as the Concertgebouw gets ready to celebrate its 60th birthday, there is only one orchestra in Europe that can approach it in perfection and polish-Vienna's 100-year-old Philharmonic (TIME, March 29). Europe had heard and judged: in the last year, the sprightly Concertgebouw has played 17 concerts in foreign countries. After its London concert, the Daily Mail reflected sadly: "This famous orchestra plays with a keenness and vitality that we are not used to in London." The Manchester Guardian admitted: "We could match its players, but not the quality of execution that could come...
Most movies depend on some realistic approach to achieve their end: slavishly typical settings, naturalism unadulterated, or at least superficially normal situations. When a film can suspend all realism, lose itself in time and place and idea, and still hold the convictions of its audience, it has chalked up the double accomplishment of a successful movie and an artistic ground-breaker...
Despite the two productions' shortcomings, the evening was an interesting one. Both plays were unusual in approach, and the Williams was enlightening as evidence of a writer's development. Last night's performance was a benefit for Camp Vence in France: the offering continues through Saturday evening...
...compete with photography. In painting, the illusion of reality required the laborious methods of perspective and chiaroscuro. With one click, cameras did the same thing more convincingly. For painting to compete as an art form, and to have something fresh to say painters had to find a new approach to their...
Many companies worried less about prices than the psychological approach. One method has been to make receivers smaller and less noticeable. Maico Co., Inc. goes after women customers with receivers that look like earrings, costing $231 (TIME, June 16). Beltone Hearing Aid Co. was plugging a 5-oz., 3-in. by 2-in. amplifier as the "world's smallest hearing aid" (price: $167.50). The aid, said Beltone, used the same principle as the proximity fuse developed during...