Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shape the Second Vatican Council. Probably the most eminent Catholic theologian alive is Germany's Jesuit Karl Rahner, whose works have been translated into more languages (47) than Goethe's. Canada's Bernard J.F. Lonergan has built a formidable reputation on two brilliant but difficult works, Insight (1957) and Method in Theology (1972). A newer name, at least to Northern Hemisphere Christians, is Montevideo's Juan Luis Segundo, whose theology is just beginning to appear in English. The restored society has also produced the other kinds of creative minds that distinguished its earlier eras, including Philosopher-Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard...
Under the stubborn prodding of Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton and Copernicus' other intellectual heirs, questions of nature were thrust directly into the combative, public arena of empirical inquiry. For the first time, experiments became crucial. Theories were supported by close observation. The new scientific method, stressing reason and logic, was born. Individual scientists might still occasionally be wrong-sometimes outrageously so, as when Newton believed that the sun was inhabited. Yet it was the testing of such hypotheses, however farfetched, that caused a new intellectual excitement to sweep the Western world, a determination to explore, understand...
...Because of the old, faulty method of assigning quotas, Winthrop people are getting screwed," a leaflet distributed by the group said. The leaflet urged Winthrop residents to call Genevieve H. Austin, assistant dean of students, and "show your concern." By afternoon, more than 20 residents had done...
Barbara Ackermann, Mayor of Cambridge, and Alan Altshuler, Cambridge Secretary of Transportation, led the motorcade--or rather pedalcade--to demonstrate the pedal car as a non-polluting method of transportation...
...Striptease. He creates situations rather than plots, and therefore he cannot use the standard dramatic techniques for opening and closing a play, which depend on a certain amount of development within the play. Before his works achieve the level they promise, he will have to find his own method of shaping his plays, somewhere in between the formal structure of traditional theater and the intentional formlessness of the Theater of the Absurd. In the meantime, his plays deserve attention purely for their cleverly absurd situations and their casual, flippant dialogue, which combine to produce Mrozek's special brand of ironic...