Word: method
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However, it is when Jencks moves into his data-less area of politics and conjecture that he falters. Jencks maintains that the selected admission of outstanding members of the lower social strata into the upper ranks of society is not an effective method of preventing revolutionary uprisings from the frustrated ones. "On the contrary," he says, "educated outsiders seem to be the enzymes without which revolution is almost impossible...
...civil rights in the '60s and Viet Nam. A recurrent device labeled "Portrait of an American" allows him to draw vignettes of his favorite fellow countrymen: Ralph Nader, Dr. Benjamin Spock and, perhaps above all, Norman Thomas ("He was the American Isaiah"). But the Manchester method of history may finally be described as stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version of American folklore. About three pages are devoted to the life and times...
Morgan said she felt the statement had never really progressed beyond draft form and that it had been one "without thought." She added that it had been "absolutely disowned" by the council as a whole, even though the group may not have "agreed totally" with Rosovsky's method of approaching the problem...
...method of quickly and inexpensively coping with crime is to lock the outside of Houses all the time. Yet there are problems with this approach. Many students not only complain vocally about the jail-like atmosphere this would cause, but also question its effect on deterring crime...
Nixon's policy as of early '69 was to win the Vietnam War, in a way as Johnson had tried to win it earlier, but by a different method that would cost less money, put less strain on the balance of payments and cause much less dissent at home...