Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day, speaking incisively but displaying uncharacteristic emotion, Kissinger held a 74-minute briefing in which he claimed that Hanoi has demanded all along that the U.S. "turn over" the South Vietnamese government to its control. It wanted this done both directly, "generously leaving the method to us," and indirectly, by defining U.S. withdrawal as including all military and economic aid to Saigon?as well as all U.S. arms now in South Vietnamese military hands. Said Kissinger: "They are asking us to align ourselves with them, to overthrow the people that have been counting on us." The terms of withdrawal...
...college's own students learn in their two-year course of study how to steer teenagers' attitudes away from "bourgeois" careerism and alleged intellectual elitism. One method is to dirty school-children's hands with frequent stints of manual labor. The young future teachers must themselves engage part-time in labor...
...practiced in Manhattan's art world. Discovering-or inventing-a new Corn God every year is a basic market strategy, since art consumers, strung out on the disintegrating pluralism of American art in the early '70s, constantly need fresh inspiration. The newest beneficiary and victim of this method is realist...
...ultimately, in attempting to distinguish Hawkes's vision (and its moral implications) from his ambitious method (with its technical complexities) that one runs into the greatest difficulty. The Blood Oranges too much begs to be called either a masterpiece or a skillful put-on; I am not sure which. For the risk lies in praising the book for the wrong reasons, or in rejecting it because Hawkes's style--deliberately, I believe--tends to cloud the moral issues any serious novelist is obliged to face...
...corporations to middle and lower income taxpayers; and of course, his wage-price controls. By giving the impression that we are moving toward "the removal of arbitrary barriers," Mr. Herrnstein's article can be used to justify the social crisis which now confronts us. Moreover, by applying the "scientific method" to social and political concerns, he attempts to prove that "we are indeed stuck with the conclusion of the syllogism" that we are headed toward a meritocracy. Such a statement cannot avoid being political, and deserves to be criticized politically...