Word: formatively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collective calls the variety of format it suggests "cinemarxism." In the final scene of a moving camera being lifted between a solid red flag and a solid black flag, while the Stones get higher and higher emotionally, the group has shown that it has replaced the production number...
Besides multiple-choice questions, N.A.E.P.'s varied format includes questionnaires, short-answer tests, performance tasks (using scientific equipment), interviews and group discussions. The project is run by a permanent field staff working in private residences and about 2,500 schools. Individual participants-100,000 of them to date-are chosen on random but statistically valid bases, and are never given scores or grades...
Within its format TIME has always insisted on variety. The days when TIME tried to sound as if it were written "by one man for one man" are long gone. For years, the names of our correspondents have appeared in our columns when we felt that this added something to the reader's appreciation of a report. The TIME Essay has often been the work of many collaborators, like other TIME stories; but recently it has become more and more the work of single individuals. Hence, several Essays have carried their writers' names. Our reviews in Theater, Cinema...
Unfashionable Phrases. So went the parries and thrusts, the President displaying anew his ability to retain detail, his satisfaction in intercepting a debater's point, his grasp of the theorems of foreign policy discourse. Yet the conversational format seemed nonetheless ill-suited to the Nixon style and personality, which fit more easily into the brisk, orderly one-shot answer of the mass press conference...
...will deliver a written report on Cambodia timed to coincide with his June 30 deadline for the removal of U.S. troops, and he will take a new step in presidential communications. For an hour he will be interviewed on foreign affairs by three commentators of the television networks. That format was essayed by John F. Kennedy (once) and Lyndon Johnson (twice), but in each case the show was taped and edited in advance. It is a measure of Nixon's current confidence that he has chosen to meet his interlocutors before the live, unforgiving camera...