Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor Italian immigrants, De Angelis was forced to quit high school to support his parents. Starting out as a meat cutter in The Bronx, he devised a method for speedily dismembering hogs by slicing them up on a moving assembly line. That helped him get a $10,000 loan to open his own pork-packing plant. While still in his 20s, he built it into the largest such operation in the Eastern U.S. and sold copious quantities of meat to the federal school-lunch program...
...Price, a member of the panel, believes that even this inhospitable welcome will not be enough. Says Dr. Price: "Quarantine is a crude approach to a problem of this sort. I would not feel safe in placing a large part of my faith in it as a security method...
...live long enough to find out. In 1828, covetous relatives dethroned Shaka by the usual method-murder. Over the next 50 years, successive assassinations eventually lodged a grandson, Cetshwayo, in the royal kraal at Ulundi. Fate and the British decreed that this gentle bull of a man would preside over the nation's death...
...past has been dismayingly dust-coverish. But this year the little, posed picture and short inconsequential recital of facts has given way to more sophisticated profiles, both pictorially and substantively. Most writers have adopted the interview transcript technique with varying degrees of success in grace and content. But this method usually seems artifical and makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only three-Andrew Weil on Jerome Bruner...
Amsel survives, takes on another name and 32 gold teeth and lives through the war. Matern also survives, much diminished in spirit by his awareness of the guilt of other Germans. He becomes a fanatically vengeful de-Nazifier, whose method is to spread his own gonorrhea among the wives of men on his private list of war criminals. But two diseases cannot beget health, and this does not ease his soul. Can he himself be guilty of something? He is harassed by a dog who has begun to follow him like a conscience-a magnificent black German shepherd who once...