Word: method
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monevman Darvas' methods would raise the eyebrows of most Wall Streeters. Instead of studying what Wall Street calls the fundamentals-price-earning ratios and dividends-he judges public enthusiasm, a method that works best in volatile markets. "In my dancing I know how to judge an audience," he says. "It is instinctive. The same way with the stock market. You have to find out what the public wants and go along with it. You can't fight the tape, or the public...
Fisher's article, which is part of a longer opus on the same subject, opens some interesting questions about universal human traits other than those mentioned in this particular paper. Choosing hypotheses from the example provided by the highly developed Western method of psychotherapy may distort the investigation from the outset. Fisher recognizes this danger, yet such working hypotheses do offer the advantage of exploiting thoroughly studied Western psychoanalysis as a model for comparison...
...described as an "odd inquisition." Panel quizzes (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) regularly bring out sharper interrogation via TV networks. How many show producers courteously furnish the "quizzed" with an advance list of questions? Bishop Oxnam's innovation sounds like an intelligent and highly effective method of gaining firsthand information on matters of real concern...
Artificial-Respiration Tube. An S-shaped plastic tube for mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration was put on sale by Johnson & Johnson. Designed to revive unconscious victims of near drowning, electric shock or similar accidents, the mouth-to-mouth-tube method of artificial respiration has been adopted by the U.S. Army. Price...
...material of the story with his easy gaiety and gentle humor, masterfully plays the Svengali to his pickup cast of raw amateurs-whom he inspires not to act but to live out their feelings with an artless art. Essentially, Neorealists De Sica and Zavattini have not changed their cinematic method, but they seem to have revised their social and moral philosophy. In their earlier films they raged at social injustice. In The Roof they are not really angry. Instead of asking the spectator to hate the world, they help him to love the people it hurts...