Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bridge world is currently divided between followers of the Lenz (a version of the Official) system and the Culbertson (or approach-forcing) system of play. Virtually all other bridge experts have joined with Mr. Lenz in approving the Official System, which was adopted largely to eliminate confusion during contract's experimental period. Mr. Culbertson, however, flatly refused to toss his system into the common pot. He has bitterly attacked the Official System and Mr. Lenz as one of its prime movers...
...plight of the drama is acute in every large city, Boston's theatrical doldrums probably represent the nadir. Only four of the legitimate theatres are open at present, and of these, two depend for their drawing power on cautious revivals of "old faithfuls" of the stage. Nor does the approach of the Christmas season promise any substantial increase in now plays...
This positive approach to modern problems is fostered at Oxford by dogged insistence on a method...
...many ways superior to others in the University, has neglected one of the important aspects of the subject. It has a tendency to teach art from a purely factual point of view, which is both important and necessary, but which ought not to be the only approach. The fundamental basis of fine arts, the value of it, why one object is more important than another, or why people should study art at all, this part is to a large measure overlooked...
...courses which approach these topics treat them inadequately. Fine Arts does give a certain amount of the theory of "line" and of "composition," but it devotes its time principally to elementary drawing. The course in aesthetics in the Philosophy Department deals with psychological and metaphysical theories, but little with their direct application...