Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sanskrit word roughly translatable as "freedom from fear." Indian men have been enthusiastic customers, partly because the contraceptives cost less than 2? for a packet of three. Of course, there have been some problems. Though family planners had assumed that the contraceptive's shape would suggest the method of use, and enclosed instructions in each package just to be safe, the idea has sometimes been hard to get across. Government demonstrators stretched sheaths over bamboo sticks, but peasants wondered later why the magic did not work when they, too, faithfully stretched them over bamboo. Even so, the test appears...
...Y.M.C.A. Method. Chandrasekhar agrees with critics that India's birth control efforts have been snarled by red tape and hurt by wishful thinking, such as his spinster predecessor's plea for brahmacharya (monklike abstinence). Nor does he place his hopes on any single method to defuse India's population time bomb. While other experts have alternatively argued for the intrauterine loop, sterilization or the pill, Chandrasekhar recognizes that none alone can provide the answer; popular fears of the loop and surgery bear him out. Instead, he vigorously favors a "cafeteria approach," giving Indians the widest choice...
...verbal commands; Clarence the cross-eyed lion; Bruce the ocelot, who was a regular on TV's Honey West; Zamba II the lion, who appears on the Dreyfus Fund commercials; and Modac the elephant, a 53-year-old veteran of the Ringling Bros. Circus. Tors's Method menagerie accounts for 90% of all the animal scenes filmed in Hollywood; the going rate for a jungle headliner, who travels with two handlers and a standin...
...horrible sneakers. My verses are no damned good." In fact, her verse was carefully shod, precise, often dazzling. It was shot through with self-pity and brittle melancholy. Her frequent approach was to make herself the fall girl in the battle of the sexes, and her favorite method was the abrupt change of pace. She might gush sentimentally and then suddenly clamp on her cynic's mask...
...Method. The Difficulty of Being, a notebook of autobiographical jottings and esthetic musings that Cocteau kept in 1946, and now published in this country, reveals some of the reasons behind the success of his performance. First, Cocteau believed as firmly as any Method actor in the truth of his role as an artist. Romantically convinced that the artist is the medium, he approached the novel, drama, painting, ballet and, finally, cinema, as if each art were merely another form or mold for his personal "poetry," and he did not so much study each new form as pour himself into...