Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KALEIDOSCOPE. Love and larceny in the biggest gambling casinos of Europe. Warren Beatty makes the scene as a rich American playboy with a surefire method for breaking the bank, and Susannah York is the breezy British bird who helps him spend the loot...
...custom of binding newborn babies tight in swaddling clothes. Charles Whitman's shooting people from the clock tower of the Texas campus is diagnosed as a case of sexual overcompensation (on a phallic tower with a phallic rifle). Stanford Associate English Professor Bruce Franklin notes that "our basic method of fighting in Viet Nam is anal-sadistic. A man in an airplane is in a nonorganic environment, symbolically defecating on the organic world below...
...every case they were correct. Enthusiastically they reported that there is no reason why the test should not always be 100% accurate. Then they quickly added a word of caution. Since obtaining a sample of the amniotic fluid "is not without danger," they carefully noted that the new method should not be used simply "for satisfying the curiosity of the parents...
...wave of curriculum reform now sweeping the public schools, the techniques of helping children to "discover" truths and relationships is of central importance. Lucy Sprague Mitchell, a John Dewey disciple who founded the school and ran it until her retirement in 1956, knew all about the discovery method many years ago. She had all the school's heating pipes painted red and all the water-pipes blue. Then, when the children asked why, she let them follow the colors to the furnace and water main...
...violated nations do about it? Nothing. None of them even thought to protest. That spontaneous abdication of national prerogative in deference to Sputnik's achievement still informs the approach to space nearly a decade-and thousands of trespasses-later. No established rules exist in space, and no method has yet been found to make rules effective there. No one has devised a way to station a traffic cop or patrol vessels to guard the boundaries of some theoretical mare nostrum of space. A canon of space law can thus be created only by mutual consent...