Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order, but he does not believe that it is to be achieved through preaching or the imposition on others of a vision, however noble, by force. He thinks it can be achieved only step by step with a clear view of one's goal, but the greatest flexibility of method. He wants to teach the U.S., so lately come to international leadership, what he considers the alpha-to-omega lessons for a major power: the need for "greater conceptualization." He wants the nation to indulge in self-interrogation: "What are we attempting to do? How would we measure success? What...
...Pace and Thrett are less apparent when they open their mouths than when they take off their clothes, but Jones and Mimieux actually manage to bring an air of wounded innocence to their roles. Jones has an unhappy tendency to recite many of his lines with a kind of Method fidget, but he could yet become one of the better young actors in Hollywood. As Tobey, Yvette Mimieux uses her doe-eyed vulnerability to maximum effect. Her fragile beauty could reduce any ethics professor to acute schizophrenia and radicalize the entire student body of Southern Methodist University...
Does Barzun really mean to say that the young have no models? The statement reveals a proclivity to exaggeration that is the working method of the book. One cannot deduce the crises which Mr. Barzun deplores from a set of statistics. Attitudes are his material, and he often trusts his luck to pick out the signs of the times on campus. The footnotes he supplies are more in the nature of anecdotes, while an impressive bibliography refers readers to more factual (and timid) efforts...
...pitch down to the last pause and wisecrack. Standard joke: "Why, we even pay off if your heart is broken." Following a technique that Stone developed, the salesmen walk through an office building from top to bottom, knocking on doors trying to sell everyone inside. The salesmen call this method "cold canvassing"; Stone predictably terms it "gold canvassing...
However, it does not specify any method although it does reject the summary letter grade as inadequate...