Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perspective of life and of the world in which we live. To reject the so-called "impractical" subjects in our high schools is to deny our cultural heritage. . . . It is tantamount to admitting . . . that learning, as far as we in America are concerned, is nothing more than a quick method for discovering which button to push and when to push...
Holt calls the teaching method "guided imitation": immediately after the native speaker does his stuff, there is dead track so the student can repeat aloud. Words are taught in progressively larger learning blocks ("I want," "I want a glass," "I want a glass of water"). In this way the student masters speech melody (intonation and speed) as well as vocabulary. By following the text as he plays the record, the student learns to read, too. But the real goal is speaking ability...
...Bloomington, Ind., two readers used another tried & true method of criticizing the press. Bernard C. Gavit, dean of the Indiana University law school, and Law Professor W. Howard Mann had been called Communists by the Hearst press. They sued for $400,000. Last week, Hearst settled out of court for $25,000 and in seven papers* recanted the libel...
...more sensational than some stuffy equations which show how many microbes the experimenters had to spray into a closed chamber to kill off their mice and guinea pigs. But the between-the-lines conclusion is monstrously clear; spreading infectious diseases by air is a practical, cheap, comparatively easy, deadly method of warfare...
...Trail, wrote his most famous (but far from his best) book during the next three years. The Oregon Trail journal, as Editor Wade points out, is better as history, and more readable, than the book written from it. The reason: illness and near-blindness forced Parkman to dictate, a method which soon became as "easy as lying." The Oregon Trail was then edited by prissy Harvardman Charles Eliot Norton and "carefully bowdlerized of much anthropological data and many insights into Western life which seemed too crude to his delicate taste...