Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Decter's argument is self-contradictory. What is worse, however, is that she offers no alternatives. She creates a picture of what happens when liberal parents try to raise children, and the only other alternative she leaves is a conservative upbringing, with all the repression that implies. The conservative method seems to produce children who reject their parents' values by becoming liberal parents, while the liberal method seems to keep children wrapped permanently in swaddling bands. There doesn't seem to be much hope for children of the future--Decter never suggests that there are people, yes, even...
...Dylan Thomas, these footnotes and headstones have a variety of uses. Literary Anecdotes forms a handy vade mecum of great and terrible superlatives. What, for instance, is the best way to die? Surely it must be singing lustily, as did William Blake. Who invented the most uncomfortable method of fishing? The appropriately named Thomas Birch, who tried to make himself inconspicuous to the fish by dressing up as a tree. What is the most gallant method of repulsing a bore at a party? Undoubtedly, Robert Browning's: "But, my dear fellow, this is too bad. I am monopolizing...
...Altman and Gibson developed the character in a less good guy/bad guy way. He is merely a man who defines himself through his audience--a totally public identity. This may be courage: more likely his soothing of the flock after the assassination is a method of control: Altman's last shot in the film, before he pans up to the sky, is of a policewoman, prim in her cap, marching through the crowd with a bag slung officially over her shoulder. Maybe the singing Haven Hamilton is a kind of fascist...
...21st birthday. While they are busy making inept plans, the audience has time to notice what a fortune Nichols has already stolen: characterization from Laurel and Hardy, a plot unembellished from a basic list of Most Popular Themes, dialogue from the stock lines of period scripts, style and method from 20's and 30's vaudeville, and even a set which is unmistakably from The Day of the Locust. Stealing is fine if the director is respectful or even reasonably restrained (in which cases it is called homage), but here the pieces are so obvious and so carelessly jumbled that...
...understanding it, that we think and talk about language in the very medium we are trying to study. Linguists cannot isolate their specimens and examine them under the objective lens of a microscope; instead they have tried desperately to replace intuition with a rigorous scientific method. Percy believes his death blow to the Chomskians is his assertion that, by their own admission, the transformational model is not actually the mechanism we use to create sentences, and that such artifices as deep structure don't correspond to any of our intuitions about language...