Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...titles of the women we admitted to the program are not as impressive as the men's," he said. "But they come to us very highly endorsed by their colleges and universities." He said that because the program used mostly a case method approach to problems in educational administration, the quality of the class is related to the experience of the participants...
...time Hitchcock parried the question, uncomfortably. The man in question, said Hitchcock, had already committed murder and in all likelihood would have used some other method to kill again had he not seen the film. Moreover, Hitchcock recalled, a young boy had injured himself around the turn of the century trying to fly after having seen the stage production of Peter Pan. Should one therefore suppress Peter Pan? Finally, Hitchcock stopped dodging and answered the question. An artist, he said, cannot be concerned with the moral consequences...
Like the various versions of Castaneda's life, the books are an invitation to consider contradictory kinds of truth. At the core of his books and Don Juan's method is, of course, the assumption that reality is not an absolute. It comes to each of us culturally determined, packaged in advance. "The world has been rendered coherent by our description of it," Castaneda argues, echoing Don Juan. "From the moment of birth, this world has been described for us. What we see is just a description...
...Stelle Group, as they call themselves, will have survived the early troubles in their self-sufficient community near Kankakee, Ill., and the later chaos by a more imaginative method-levitation. During the cataclysms, they will be off floating somewhere in the sky; afterward, they will come back down to Stelle and to the "lost continent" of Lemuria,* which will have re-emerged from the Pacific Ocean during the last catastrophes. On Lemuria they will create a city over which Christ will reign in the person of the Archangel Melchizedek. Not quite the Christ of the New Testament, though: typifying their...
...sexual response and the personality traits of 287 married women. At no point were any of the women, in the Masters and Johnson style, actually observed in sexual intercourse in the laboratory. Admitting the inadequacies of a woman's description of her own sexual response, Fisher felt that this method was for his purposes no less distortive than the unnatural laboratory setting...