Word: method
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three problems of medical care, rights and obligations of organized labor, and school desegregation have been selected for the social studies curriculum at the Concord Junior High School. These studies form the subjects for a "case method" technique of instruction, which, it is hoped, will substantially change a junior high school student's approach to contemporary national issues from simple information-giving recitation to "complex patterns of critical evaluation." The SUPRAD investigators hope to accomplish this by the use of special materials and by "probing-questioning Socratic discussion...
...observation booth equipped with one-way glass allows researchers to observe classes for purposes of evaluating the case method. Written tests before and after the experiment compare the progress of students in the "Socratic" classes with those in the control group being taught by traditional recitation methods...
...argument suggests that Nabokov is applying The Method to writing. He occupies his characters like houses; they have the lived-in look. As early as Sebastian Knight, Nabokov's writing was rich in fringe benefits. There is his animistic imagery: a stopped clock face wears "the waxed moustache of ten minutes to two," the first spring zephyrs are "cold-limbed ballet-girls waiting in the wings." There is the unflinching refusal to sacrifice art to the urgencies of politics: "Time for Sebastian was never 1914 or 1920 or 1936-it was always year 1." There is the verbal clowning...
...most significant aspect of this exchange of visits is the emergence of two-power personal diplomacy, not as a panacea, but as a reasonable method of exchanging views and "reducing tensions," to use a favorite Khrushchev phrase. The concept of the Big Two sitting at a table deciding the fate of smaller nations may not sit well in anti-monopolistic American stomachs, but it is more than reasonable to assume that any Eisenhower-Khrushchev agreement would exert a rather compelling influence on other, lesser powers...
...stories the Advocate contains a short sketch by William Kelly about life in a tenement and a demonic child. Unfortunately, the characters have hardly any chance to develop and remain somewhat awkward attitude-figures, not really belonging in this piece which, if it were to be acted, would be Method stuff...