Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bamboo, lift weights on pulleys or take car engines apart. CID is a museum for children, ages four through 14, the latest entry in an expanding field. "What's important is participation," explains Doris Whitmore, president of the American Association of Youth Museums. "Without a hands-on approach, it's a dead museum...
...Halperin is spending weeks in Cambridge studying calculus and working at the Mass General gynecological clinic. Weekends, she tries to get away, often to play baroque recorder with friends on the North Shore. Her approach she's always taken regarding academics, separating school and her life into spheres. "I sort of view school as my occupation. I study and live my life outside school...
...plunked his drive in deep gorse along the hedgerows on 18 but managed to punch his second shot into the front of the green despite a restricted swing. He rapped the undulating 30-foot putt into the heart of the cup for a birdie three. Watson meanwhile hit his approach shot pin-high and needed only a tap-in for his monumental victory and the 10,000 pound first prize...
...present climate, but it now occurs quietly, less flamboyantly. Instead of protesting, the University of California's 125,000 students employ a lobbyist (at $84,000 a year) to battle the legislature. Nearly a dozen "open universities" in the Bay Area alone provide a less structured, tutorial approach to learning. The ruddy affluent of Marin County have made holistic medical clinics into community centers that sometimes offer their clients life-style-evaluation group sessions...
...British, Tusker never pulled up stakes. He and his wife Lucy, "the last survivors of Pankot's permanent retired British residents," coexist amiably with most of the natives-but not so well with each other. Tusker's irascibility has been honed by questionable health and the approach of his 71st birthday. Lucy, whose chief diversion in recent years has been local showings of Hollywood movies, has begun to feel that life with Tusker is not going to get much better. In approved silver-screen manner, she utters dramatic monologues to empty rooms: "Tusker and I do not truly...