Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Juntendo University, Suruga, 52, explained his special interest in biliary atresia: for reasons unknown it is far more common in Asia than in Western countries. Suruga's early techniques for correcting the condition proved to be only palliative, not curative. In 1968 he hit upon a method that he has since used in 40 cases, with 30 children now surviving. It was a variation of this technique that he used for William...
...succeeds because he has clearly had experience with the proverbial condition of "Edge City." He knows about the brink and the abyss, and he cares passionately about bringing this book to birth. He never labors his allegory, or cheapens his surrealism into fairy tale moralism. The method is a radical one, paradoxically, in that it hearkens back to an earlier age of the novel (and this must be a good thing) by working with the intensity of dramatic scenes--a throwback to Dostoyevsky. By taking diverse experience and building situations wherein he can forge these loose elements into a crystallized...
...exegesis. Moby Dick whale imagery, phrases like "an inversion of the objective correlative" and "eschatological imperatives" constantly threaten everyone with intellectual lockjaw. For one assistant professor, the idea of Dynamic Tension in Cat's Cradle evokes Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, although Charles Atlas' muscle-building method is more in keeping with Vonnegut's unpretentious style and sources...
...book is a little mine of information on the rising English middle class. Whatever else the public school was, it was a method of producing a ruling middle class, and Tom Brown's school days are obviously a preliminary to a commission in the army, a three year stint at Oxbridge, or a spot secure in the Church of England hierarchy. And whatever the rest of Thomas Hughes's sentiments, that struck him as being the right way for things...
...possess a distinctive discipline or mode of inquiry; the study of government, or political science, is often cited as an example. In addition, mastering a discipline is no easy matter. The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life...