Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is only one means, Stalin said, to reduce to zero the present German superiority in tanks and thus radically improve the position of our armies. This method consists not only in increasing several times the output of tanks in our country but also in sharply increasing the output of anti-tank guns, anti-tank aircraft, anti-tank rifles, anti-tank grenades and trench mortars...
High Kickers (book by George Jessel, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby; music & lyrics by Kalmar & Ruby; produced by Alfred Bloomingdale) is a musicomedy attempt to bag the spirit of burlesque. The method is simple: the plot is all about a burlesque show. The joke-making is equally simple: always corny and always off-color. The casting problem could not have been hard: gams, old vaudevillians, Hot Mama Sophie Tucker and, to keep everything moving, Hellow-Mama George Jessel. The result is unfortunate: bearable in slivers, terrible in bulk...
...three-year men meets with fundamentally the same objections as drawing on the regular funds. It would mean ear-marking cash directly from the central office; curtailing expenses in another direction would be the result, and the University justifiably frowns on such. Using present loan funds is the method that University Hall has followed most often in aiding financially-dependent three-year students. But it is clear that such a procedure, if extended, would quickly become overloaded, and could not pretend to cover anything-like the entire picture...
Seemingly the most practical method is one which is just beginning to gain recognition. It consists of allowing men enrolled in the program to take courses free of charge, after paying the normal tuition rate for four courses. This is already being done for a few concentrators in fields considered vital to national defense. Since the number of such students enrolled in each course cannot be large, the added expense for new section men and instructors would amount to little or nothing...
This brief outline is brutally unfair--you must read the book to appreciate fully the tremendous breadth of Professor Sorokin's knowledge--but it does allow of at least one equally sketchy criticism of the method of analysis; Sorokin has started out with the hunch that there are three cultural compartments and then amassed evidence to back the hunch. But it is possible to start out with the different theory of a linear, progressive history of Western civilization and amass evidence to prove it, or to take a theory of parallel lines of development. Sorokin's evidence to prove...