Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still has smoke-on windless winter days aviators flying toward the city see, rising over the skyscrapers and chimneys, a vast bulging black parachute of mixed fog and soot that blots out the world below. Suburbanites driving to work on sunny mornings switch on their car lights as they approach the business district and drive into what looks like a gigantic rusty iron wall rising from the pavement to the sky-the smoke that lies thick and russet-green under the early sun. Because most St. Louis furnaces use Southern Illinois soft coal that burns cheaply, gaseously, smokily, because...
Noteworthy in the approach to the story has been the incorporation of "realism." We hope the Hays office will be as tolerant in the future, for such details make the story live. Rhett's final "I don't give a damn" jars most but is unimportant in this connection compared to the scene where a soldier has his leg amputated without an anaesthetic, or to the scene of Scarlett's mother lying dead upon the bier in war-ruined Tara. Throughout the film the audience remains convinced that it is 1865 and the characters do breathe...
...evils. Like any would-be reformer, he tears up the proffered plans for reorganization as inadequate. However, the importance of his criticism lies in his concentrated attack on the basic attitude of most contemporary students of society. Furthermore, while pressing the attack, he lays the framework for a new approach...
...point of view, we might apply it to America's attitude and reaction to war. Empirically war has been found to cause trouble. Rationally, it is unacceptable. War destroys both men and society. Finally, Americans have a powerful intuitive repulsion to killing. Using Professor Sorokin's integral method of approach it seems clear that people should make a conscious effort to eliminate war, to extract the thorn in the flesh of civilization. However, from its narrow empirical point of view, America acts on its experience that war may be bad for combatants but is eminently profitable for non-combatants...
...support the continued advance, the Russians kept up the bombardment with planes. The Finns had no respite. Far behind the Russian lines transport was choked with men and supplies, but the supply lines did not break down. Jubilantly a Leningrad communiqué told of the Red Army's approach to Kämärä. The Finns admitted a withdrawal to new positions, insisted the main line still held, called up men of 44 and youths...