Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was only one possible method of burial. Sober-faced workmen packed 300 pounds of dynamite to the cliff, tamped it into the rock, set it off. An avalanche rumbled down. As had been done after the recent Newfoundland crash of a Belgian Sabena airliner, a Catholic priest, a Protestant clergyman and a Jewish rabbi read burial services from a plane which circled overhead. Then the wilderness fell silent again...
Then Jackson added a portentous postscript to the judgment: ". . . Germany is not the only country whose governing party has practiced this method [mass persecution of minorities, bloody suppression of all opposition] of maintaining itself. Opposition ... to existing regimes today will earn the same fate in much of eastern Europe as it did in Germany. . . . There is great need that the statesmen pick up where the lawyers leave off at Nürnberg...
...difference between Joy and such popular religious novels as The Robe and The Song of Bernadette is the difference between a papal nuncio and a parish priest. Essentially a parable of intellectual temptation, the book is primarily dialectical in method, and almost wholly devoid of the usual stage effects of fiction. It is charged with burning vitality, but its drama exists mainly in the consciences of the characters...
...Marriage of Figure," which will be produced by the group in the Edward Dent translation, opens the season and will introduce to Boston a new, or Goldovsky, method of direction. The theory is that opera is primarily theatrical. Corollary one states that you cannot give convincing performances of an opera in a language which the east does not understand. Corollary two demonstrates that singers must be able to do more than get their notes right--though this is considered important. As a result, less attention is paid to the conductor and more to the score...
...radio advertisers in 1929, early hired pioneer market researcher Archibald M. Crossley* to measure the unseen audience. In up to 81 U.S. cities for 16 years, Crossley aides thumbed through telephone directories, called subscribers at random, asked them what program, if any, they were listening to. By this method, C.A.B. tried to estimate the number of telephone subscribers tuned in to any show. No attempt was made to learn what they thought of the broadcast. The fact of listening was enough. Soon, "Crossleys" were used as defense for programs good & bad. But even top stars like Jack Benny and Edgar...