Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once the obsession takes hold, it becomes clear that while gardening may be many things for many people, dirt cheap it ain't. Among the quickest ways to run through a fortune is to approach the garden with the eye of a connoisseur. "Trees are my 87th collection," admits Louis Meizel, who, with his wife Susan, owns a SoHo art gallery and a 3 1/2-acre Long Island farm. "As with all our collections, our goal is to put together the best of each kind in the world." They have spent about $100,000 thus far, in part because they...
...myth-piercing reporting and clear-eyed opinions, Peters created a new style of journalism that looked at Washington, in his words, "the way that an anthropologist looks at a South Sea island." Equally important, he trained a cadre of young followers who went on to apply his rigorously intellectual approach at larger publications...
...went to college and instead plunged into the world of fashion. She arrived in the U.S. in 1976 and put in stints at Viva and New York, before being named creative director of American Vogue in 1983 and editor of the British edition in 1986. In London her brusque approach to redesigning the already successful British Vogue earned her the sobriquets "nuclear Wintour" and "Wintour of our discontent." The shy editor clearly relishes power. "I'm the Conde Nast hit man," she told a friend. "I love coming in and changing magazines...
...sure, TV's go-for-broke approach on such big stories has its rewards. With so much attention focused on the Soviet Union, viewers got many more background stories than would normally be allowed on the tightly formatted evening news. The importance of summit coverage, contends NBC News President Lawrence Grossman, is "not in terms of specific agreements. The major issue is trying to give people a sense of the landmark changes taking place inside the Soviet Union." With budgets growing tighter, however, the networks will have to take a harder look at whether such reporting extravaganzas are justified...
...fortunately, the products of an education more idealistic and high-minded. It stresses method and approach rather than command of specific subjects and particular books; it is at once more humble and more demanding. Such a philosophy is the keystone of Harvard's curriculum, not only of the Core curriculum, but of the tutorial program as well...