Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professional rivals). She has, during a decade as "Hollywood's Bachelor Girl," been "linked" romantically in the gossip columns with many of the community's most prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach to her career (she is probably Hollywood's only star who regularly reads the Wall Street Journal). Trying to add these things up remains a favorite game at Hollywood dinner parties...
...World Council of Churches was more challenging to modern Christians than that of the great Swiss theologian, Karl Barth. TIME has already reported (Sept. 13) the impact of his address on the U.S. delegates, many of whom criticized Barth as advocating a passive "let-God-do-it" approach to the problems of our time. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked Earth's speech as offering "a too simple and premature escape from the trials . . . duties and tragic choices which are the condition of our common humanity" (TIME, Nov. 8). Last week an English translation of Earth's speech was printed...
...tosses the problem right back into the means hands. You could always give up without a fight and ask her roommate or best friend--who probably has inside information about what she wants anyway--to do the job of shopping for you. That's the 97-pound-weakling approach...
...rounded up 187 men, mostly from colleges, screened them, and selected for training 16 promising specimens ranging in age from 18 to 67. To these men he gave an intensive, 12-hour, two-day course in all the problems of being a Santa Claus, including make-up and psychological approach. Then, giving each a handsome diploma, Josko sent them into the world--local department stores that had signed up for his genuine, reliable, gilt-edged St. Nicks...
...election recently to the American Institute of Arts and Letters on the basis of the fine rhythm is his "Life Story." "This was greeted by riotous approbation, not directed so much to my good-will as to my judgment." She then said something about the "Sunday School" approach to writing having its values...