Word: method
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...pedantic academic treatise and fairly sparkles with aphoristic insight (see box). Riesman and Jencks visited only about 150 of the nation's 2,200 colleges, relied more heavily on their own judgments and interviews than on archive materials or administrative documents. Despite this informal method-or perhaps because of it-the book is likely to stand for years as the most reliable analysis of higher education...
...lived in the small Seine-side Paris suburb of Chatou. The burly, Belgian-descended artist had been a professional cyclist and cabaret violinist who taught himself to paint. In later years, he recalled: "I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced...
...Lubin comes close to sustaining the self-conscious tone of pseudo-pedantry which gives Borges' work its peculiar charm. But the difficulty of parodying a parodist is evident in the moments when the piece descends into nonsense and uncomfortable undergraduate humor. Although seemingly sympathetic, the parody uses the penetrating method of Borges' own arcane inventiveness to become the closest thing to unfavorable comment on the Argentine yet printed...
...structure at the front of its head that it uses as a saw and that the caterpillar of one kind of silk moth leaves an exit hole when it builds the cocoon. The species Kafatos chose to work with, the Chinese Oak Silk Moth, however, had no such obvious method...
Kafatos is investigating precisely this information-retreival which goes on during differentiation. He likens the information selection to the ordeal of obtaining a book from the stacks of Widener. Just as an industrious Cliffie chooses one book from the stacks by some apparently mystical method, so the cell somehow selects which information to copy. Next, the Cliffie has to decide whether or not the book is worth reading after all. She may carry it with her to the reading room or she may immediately discard it in the stacks. Similarly, not all the information which is copied into...