Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Security Council, where each had a veto. Command of the combined forces would be channeled through a military staff committee, composed of officers from the Big Five. But as Russian vetoes followed one another in the Council like wolves across the steppe, it became quickly plain that this method of peace-keeping would not work. In fact, the military staff committee still exists, but its U.S. representative, Lieut. Colonel Victor de Guinzbourg, is noted mostly for his compilation of a volume entitled Wit and Wisdom of the U.N. (Sample wisdom from Japan: "A wise man is impartial, not neutral...
...Joseph, Minn., Sculptor Joseph O'Connell ambles out of the surrounding woods twice weekly, leaving his wife and eight children behind, to demonstrate his method of sculpting at the College of St. Benedict, a Catholic women's school. There he fires up an acetylene torch and shows the girls how he carves in metal, presumably leaving them with a lifelong interest in both sculpture and blowtorches. The 642 students at St. Benedict's even enjoy a second artist in residence: Playwright George Herman (his From Sea to Shining Sea has been optioned by Manhattan's Lincoln...
Responding to Perkins, Dancer Jose Limón, who teaches at New York's Juilliard School of Music, pointed out that in the end "the scholar and the artist are working toward the same goal. The scholastic method, objective, dispassionate, and the artist's egocentricity are diverse roads leading to one end: civilized...
...long as the present situation is not corrected by appointments (and as long as the Social Studies program is too small and too selective to be of any real value as a corrective), then some other method of balancing undergraduate political sciences education--such as a standard sophomore tutorial which would introduce concentrators to the various approaches--should be considered...
...Russians have not been communicative about their landing methods. Their early cosmonauts were apparently ejected when they neared earth; they landed by personal parachutes, letting the empty capsules hit the ground hard. At the ends of other flights, they seem to have stayed on board, as U.S. astronauts do, while the ships landed beneath bigger and better parachutes. Retrorockets have also been used to check a ship's speed as it nears the ground. The three-man spaceship Voskhod I used this method with great success. Its designers were so sure that the soft landing would work that they...