Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint is a Flint school of artists led by Jaroslav Brozik which applies to industrial themes an impressionistic manner...
...plays in the chronological order of their composition. "The time honoured division into Comedies. Histories, and Tragedies, dating from the First Folio and since universally adopted has been abandoned." they say, "in the belief that there were room and need for an edition that should enable readers to approach the body of the plays not as a state monument of achievement but as a vital and growing organism revealing the evolution of the poet's personality and genius...
...impeded on one hand by emotional fervor and on the other by unreasonable skepticism. He knew that to most scientists the very words telepathy and clairvoyance smacked of vaudeville hood-winkery and fat. dark women. But if telepathy and clairvoyance existed, he reasoned, they should be accessible to scientific approach. He went to Duke's Professor McDougall, got a post at the university and facilities for research...
...approach to the problem was a play called Night Over Taos. In that piece an old Spanish hidalgo in New Mexico in 1847 detects in his son democratic tendencies. The conflict between the two kills the old man, but not before Playwright Anderson has put in his mouth this pragmatic doctrine: . . . The north will win. Taos is dead. It's right Because what wins is right. It won't win forever. The kings will come back, and they'll be right again When they win again...
...picture-taking job with the Conde Nast publications (Vanity Fair, Vogue, House & Garden, was told his work was good but he did not know "the right people." Thereupon he went out to enlarge the circle of his acquaintances. As a professional photographer he is kind. In manner his pictures approach the clandestine snapshots of candid cameramen with their high speed lenses, but Jerome Zerbe uses only a standard news photographer's camera with synchronized flash bulb. None of the celebrities he has caught was photographed eating, yawning, scratching ears or picking noses. Some of them were drunk...