Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austin Report may or may not conform to Bok's own beliefs about investment policy, but it clearly did not jive with Bok's method of handling a political crisis. And the report's chief proponent, Bennett, while a good financial manager, undoubtedly did not jive either. He voted against nearly all of the resolutions considered this Spring by Bok's pet committee, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibilities, a body formed in the aftermath of Mass Hall to aid the Corporation in deciding how to vote Harvard's proxies...
...minutes each morning and evening as one sits comfortably with eyes closed." The few minutes generally run to about 20 or 30 per session--whether alone or with others. Larry Geeslin, a tall, thin faced second semester senior, who found TM while on a leave of absence, describes the method as being simple and natural. A nonsense word called a "mantra" is assigned for life to each student by a teacher. Contemplation of the mantra allows the user to enter the transcendental state, during which Geeslin says meditators appear to be sleeping but in fact remain acutely alert...
...Franklin made a career of common sense; Poor Richard was a seed catalogue of utilitarian philosophy ("The used key is always bright"). By the early 19th century, De Tocqueville noted that Poor Richard had gone public. "Without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules of a philosophical method," he wrote, Americans "are in possession of one, common to the whole people...
...method: shrewd conclusion based on empirical observation. What the eyes could see, the wits could solve. At the zenith of the Darwinian revolution, Oliver Wendell Holmes assured his countrymen: "Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper-chamber, if he has common-sense on the ground floor...
...characters appear here for the first time and never appear again--the event passes as quickly as it came. There are hundreds of such vignettes in the book, glimpsed actions, characters scurrying in and out of focus. Pynchon has no great interest in making these fragments cohere; his method is rather to take the loose ends of story and unravel them altogether...