Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time Inc. authenticated the tapes by voiceprint analysis-an electronic method of matching the voice patterns on the tapes with recorded Khrushchev speeches-and published Khrushchev Remembers, first as a series of four articles in LIFE, and subsequently as a Little, Brown book. Khrushchev himself was never involved directly with Little, Brown or Time Inc. Therefore, when the first volume of his memoirs was published in the West, he could truthfully tell an irate Arvid Pelshe, chairman of the Party Control Commission, that he had never "turned over" his memoirs to anyone. Under pressure from Pelshe, Khrushchev made a statement...
Each of the four men sees his vacation in a different way, so the story gradually divides into four. Nominally, Ray's method is to present events in a natural setting and let us see them as if we were present. As in all of his films, however, this objectivity melts away to reveal the larger issues with which he is concerned, issues that he presents through the details of the simple events of his screenplay...
Levison said that no first floor rooms at Lowell have fire door exits, because "the windows are thought to be the second method of egress...
...Since MIT had acquired much of its land since 1928 its payments would not drastically increase with the new formula, but Harvard's would have immediately quadrupled. Harvard was willing to talk, Donald C. Moulton, Harvard coordinator for community affairs, said, but the square-foot basis was an arbitrary method of determining in lieu of tax payments. "We're not legally obligated to make the payments, but we recognize the services the city provides Harvard," he added...
Writers who choose Garcia's path will be more influential in the U.S. than others. Neruda's work can speak best to those who already share his principles; Borges's work has no political message. Garcia's method is to allow his readers to believe that they are not reading politics at all, only simple, romantic tales of life in the fictional village of Macondo. Within these stories, however, Garcia explains a good deal about the social and historical background of contemporary Latin America. And it serves the U.S. right that the great American novel turned...