Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Favorite Method. Charles de Gaulle wants none of that. He fears that urgent economic legislation about to be submitted to lawmakers could take months to squeeze through an unruly National Assembly, giving the opposition a continuous field day. Last week Premier Georges Pompidou told a hand-picked group of Deputies that the Assembly will be asked to approve government-by-decree for the next six months. Seeking extraordinary powers to rule temporarily by decree has long been a favorite method of French governments for stuffing unpopular measures down parliamentary throats, and De Gaulle himself has used it no less than...
...word, no. But it reminds me of 1874. Imagine! W. E. Gladstone attacked papal infallibility in his pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees, Solomon introduced the pressure-cooking method for canning foods, Richard Wagner completed Götterddmmerung, and Wingfield invented lawn tennis. And, oh yes-civil marriage was made compulsory in Germany...
...selectively. Of course, these new boys do not have the pioneering spirit of the old teachers, but I guess they don't need it anymore," says Kilgo. In fact, most of the franchise owners cannot even speed read. Kilgo admitted that he has not been able to master the method, "I had it once, for a few minutes I was reading at 20,000 words per minute, but never since that time...
...gone and he is still reading at 400 words a minute? "You have to believe deep down that you're going to get it. You must have faith that sometime this week you will be doing your homework and suddenly it will happen. You must be faithful to the method." This is usually the standard line used by the Reading Dynamics teachers. The "faith" is now "being faithful;" it is used as a club to prevent people from dropping the course...
...learning to read dynamcially was as straightforward as Evelyn Wood says, none of this complicated superstructure would be necessary. It is true, as the previous two articles showed, that it is possible for a person to learn dynamic reading with the Wood method. But it is also true that the vast majority of students never do learn, even if they do their homework every night and believe and believe and believe. Nobody who is associated with Reading Dynamics would ever come out and admit this because it makes ridiculous the fact that less than two percent of the students...