Word: approaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Austere Symbol. Half the subjects of Mann's essays are figures who are known to most Americans (Goethe, Tolstoy, Wagner, Cervantes, Schopenhauer, Freud); the others are likely to interest only a specializing minority. But there is no basic difference in Essayist Mann's approach to any one of them-and it is this constancy that unites them in one volume like assorted vegetables in one string...
...tomorrow." Even the lawyers on Yale's faculty soak their casebooks in a heady wine of history, sociology, politics and economics, like to call in everybody from coal barons to clinical psychiatrists as guest experts. Says Sturges: "Our idea of law is more than the butterfly-&-microscope approach, the anatomy of legal proceedings. We try to put the rules of law into their social setting...
...some ways a brilliant mind, with some appalling blind spots. The Colonel is well-read in history, at least in the names and dates of battles, but has learned from it only his single-track, narrow-gauge approach to world affairs. The people he despises most are amateur military strategists, and none more than that fellow amateur, Franklin Roosevelt...
...Zimmerman and associates cautioned that there are limits to what glutamic acid can do: e.g., patients improve rapidly during the first six months but approach an I.Q. ceiling by the end of a year; if they quit the glutamic acid diet, they begin to backslide mentally. A still unanswered question: Would the treatment improve the intelligence of normal children or grownups...
...they had rolled out of a player piano. Said he: "Some people write music for their own pleasure, but I don't. I write to serve the nation. The Soviet composer must serve the people; there must be no intrusion of the personal element in his approach. . . . Everything is bad music that is not directed toward the emotion of the listener. Music must be an inspiration for the people; the mission of the Soviet composer must be to educate the good taste of the people." Both the Shostakovich children, daughter Galya, 11, and son Maxim, 9, are taking piano...