Word: approaching
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Where we differ--and I suspect. fundamentally--is in our approach to social thought, the way it should be taught and the relative weight it should be given in any concentration which claims to be educating undergraduates in Social Studies, however liberally defined. gleefully reported in his letter that a member of the Sociology Department told him he would not, today, vote to appoint Talcott Parsons to his department...
That Landes saw no need to distinguish between today and 1931 when posing his jejune question, was not only an odd omission for an historian, but highly revealing of what is so hopelessly wrong with his, and Social Studies', approach to social thought...
...crisis and cutbacks in local aid have not affected Cambridge as quickly as other communities because the city is below the tax levy cap set 10 years ago by the statewide referendum known as Proposition 2 1/2. In addition, Maloney said the city has taken an "overall conservative fiscal approach" to the budget...
...sure there are women in my dining hall who have serious eating concerns. I worry that someday, when one of them is eating a salad or some yogurt, a paradoxically ignorant tutor will approach and compliment them on their apparently pleasing slimness. And one of them might think this woman knows something. But both of them can easily find this kind of wisdom and judgment from their peers. The apple does not fall far from the tree, but the problem is now even Eve would...
...beer. After making a brief bow to family sensibilities by attending McGill University, he headed south in the early '30s, to Manhattan, where he studied acting. The great George Abbott gave him his first big break and taught him the rough-and-tumble art of farce, an athletic, physical approach to his craft that he has since used in more cerebral roles. Cronyn has also picked up his share of honors, including an Academy Award nomination for The Seventh Cross in 1944 and a Tony for playing Polonius in the 1964 production of Richard Burton's Hamlet...