Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time an associate professor at Rensaeller Polytechnic Institute, author in 1933 of "The Great Tradition," a Marxist approach to American literature since 1870, Hicks will be the first self-confessed Communist to obtain any appointment to the Faculty...
...gagman, then got a chance at directing. As a director he is best at purposeful melodrama (Little Caesar, Five Star Final, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,They Won't Forget), which he usually endows with newsreel clarity, noteworthy ingenuity. In drawing-room comedy his approach is parvenu...
...would devote the rest of his life to the research for a Unified Field Theory which would comprehend all natural phenomena. He knows that such a fantastically ambitious goal will never be reached by a straight frontal attack. He has been probing around it, looking for avenues of approach, circuitously groping toward unity. Nearly a decade ago he actually announced a Unified Field Theory, but discarded it when flaws were detected. Later he found a way to handle particles as bridges connecting two contiguous "sheets" of space. His associates now cough sadly behind their hands when the space-sheets...
Thus the student is given an opportunity not only to make up uncovered ground, but a fresh approach to his courses through the eyes of young men not permanently connected with Harvard. The Directors of the Summer School stress particularly getting young men representative of Universities all over the country as instructors. In this way the heavy emphasis on minute scholarship which the student faces during the academic year is relieved, and an idea of the trends of thought in other sections of the country obtained...
...will not seem an imposition if the student is permitted to have free choice. A third course will insure the system in two ways: first, by escaping the fangs of over-specialization in the correlated field; second, by making the student acquire another point of view, another method of approach, to problems in the social sciences. Through such administering the system of correlation exams can regain its health, and the doctors, in this case the Divisional Committee, may wipe their hands and feel that at last the round peg has been fitted, not to perfection, but to accomplishment...