Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe, his last great role, as well as his first encounter with that other genius, Aristophanes. It was a thrilling experience to watch, during rehearsals, these two giants of humor and hilarity fight against each other for predominance-striking at each other with totally different weapons of method, language, mentality, even decency-to establish a comic point that was, fundamentally, common to them both...
...Another method of avoiding the effort and expense of a new series installment is to pre-empt it with a replay of what the networks like to call "holiday classics." On NBC, the most persistent ghost of Christmas past is Mr. Magoo portraying Scrooge, which was repeated last week for the sixth consecutive sea son. Other animated perennials are CBS's "A Charlie Brown Christmas," NBC's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," CBS's "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," and a new NBC entry, "The Cricket on the Hearth." Of course, as happened last week...
...turned out to be little short of a comedy of errors. A few days before his target date, he ordered Olympic Airways to place two planes at his disposal-a tip-off to the junta's ubiquitous secret police that the King had some travel in mind. His method of heralding the coup was even less auspicious: he simply sat down at his palace desk in the Athens suburb of Tatoi and wrote a letter to Lieut. General Odysseus Anghelis, the army chief of staff and a junta supporter. In it, the King told the general that...
Since 1955, more than 5,000 South African births have been aided at six de compression clinics using Heyns's method. Another clinic is operating in Mexico City, and some 36 national health hospitals in Great Britain have used the device for problem pregnancies and research...
...method is this," he explained. "I write a poem on innumerable sheets of scrap paper, often upside down and crisscross ways unpunctuated, surrounded by drawings of lampposts and boiled eggs, in a very dirty mess; bit by bit I copy out the slowly developing poem into an exercise book; and, when it is completed, I type it out. The scrap sheets I burn." Fourteen years after Thomas' death, collectors still mourn those burned scraps. But four of his workbooks of self-history are available for study-at 26, Dylan sold them to the Lockwood Library of the State University...