Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...type of structure of his symphonies. A single movement in any eighteenth or nineteenth-century symphony followed a certain general pattern--the main theme was stated at the outset, in all its length and loveliness, then in succeeding measures was broken down and developed. Sibelius uses an exactly opposite approach. He takes fragments of theme, broken bits of melody, and toys with them for a while. He juggles them from instrument to instrument, combining them in a variety of ways. Gradually they are linked together to form an extended and coherent theme. If one sees in this only orchestral splinters...
Opposition to the department's end has centered on the fact that the need for regional planning is ever increasing, that the approach to the study of regional planning is very different from that of architecture, where it will be placed if the department is dropped, and that it is unfortunate that the value of a department should be measured by the money income...
...hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve, and when the professionals appear the orchestra really goes to town...
...landscape by Paul Hollister '41 is a carefully executed oil which shows more skill and technical finesse than originality; but it is a poor spectator who continually demands originality in the paintings which he sees. Honest performance and an intelligent approach have become rare birds these days, but they can be found in the work of Hollister. He is a fine draftsman, and he succeeds in rising above the stage of self-consciousness. The paintings of Elliott Richardson '41 betray a certain naivete of approach, but they are straightforward and clear. Nothing artificial, nothing that might protrude as a deliberate...
...Norway's bacon, was now saved by King Haakon's pluck, and by an old American fighting custom. King Haakon refused to countenance "Premier" Quisling, exhorted his people to fight. This a lot of them were already doing. Loyal Norse airmen, hearing of the Germans' approach, managed to spirit half of Norway's 100 military planes away to secret fields (frozen lakes). Loyal Norse soldiers, as they fell away from the shores of Oslo Fjord, man aged to blow up Selbergross Dam, main source of the capital's light & power. To join the loyal soldiers...