Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, private jam sessions I have attended, listening to the all-star jamming of such gates as Chu Berry, Louis Armstrong, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Harrisson. But I have not listened to their improvising purely with my emotions, for me "toujours I'approche intellectuelle au sujet" (always the intellectual approach for any subject). For instance, I am ravished by the celestial ninths which J. C. Higginbotham (Higgy to his friends, among whom I am proud to say I am numbered) plays on that good old slush-pump, and I am not alone in believing that Artie Shaw heaves a mean...
Throughout the world some 300,000,000 people every week hear symphonic music in the movies, whether they know it or not. Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed...
...Senatorial geese quacked, the Mississippi fox prowled the cloakrooms, his manner courteously persuasive, his approach discreet and chummy. At last he wangled enough commitments from Senators that, if the final vote got too close, they would switch to his side...
...commend your analysis of the suggested proposal for the broadening of the university approach to the study of law in your editorial entitled the "Seven Year Itch." One possible misunderstanding, however, may underlic that analysis and that is your assumption that in the sixth and seventh years of study work will be divided between Law on the one hand and Government and Economics on the other. If by the phrase, Government and Economics, you imply a narrowing of that area of choice now open to college seniors concentrating in the fields of history, government, economics, and history and literature...
Suppose you were downtown and you didn't have any money to get home, how would you approach the policeman?-"I'd say, 'Please, Mr. Cop, will you lend me a nickel? I promise to return...