Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Listen, every time we're given SDS literature, our real understanding of their material is repulsed at their method of accusation. Why must they shout hysterical revolutionary chants or the most vogue right-on cliches? It's assumed that each paragraph will contain three references to such bloodcurdling descriptions as 'Racist butcher" or "pigeonman". What must be presented are the underlying facts of the American political-power-system. What must be suggested is the type of political action necessary to achieve democratic control of our nation's resources...
...form for all his sensations. "I took up sculpture," said Matisse, "because what interested me in painting was a clarification of my ideas . . . When I found it in sculpture, it helped me in my painting. I kept working in the hope of finding an ultimate method...
...entered a housing project immediately behind a girl, forced her at knifepoint to ride the elevator to the top floor, led her to the roof, placed her personal property on a window ledge, and forced her to undress. According to Judge Dembitz, the three cases corroborated one another: "The method of operation was sufficiently similar and distinctive to establish a likelihood that the same individual committed the acts against the three girls." With that, plus the girls' identification of the boy, Judge Dembitz found him guilty and he was placed in a state training school...
Engel said that the Review also served as an excellent method of training lawyers. "There is a real function of intellectual training here," he said...
Even with masters like Shakespeare, the pun is lagniappe, a trick to reconcile opposites, a method of giving a long sentence a parole. It was not until 1922 and Ulysses that James Joyce made it a literature unto itself. In Finnegans Wake, words become quintuple exposures; the reader has to search for a glimpse of something recognizable. In A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson explicate a typical and relatively easy example: "Into boudoir Joyce inserts the letter I and converts the word to boudeloire, thus adding a river association, 'Loire.' Clinging...