Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard hired Bob Harrison, and Maryland chose Lefty Driesell Both schools wished, basically, to build ballclubs that would be competitive nationally. Maryland, which hopes for a little more, has taken one method and philosophy, Harvard another. It will bear watching which made the better choice of fitting the man to the dream...
Costs v. Gains. One problem with the method is that in large classes it requires teachers' aides, and many school systems cannot afford them. In New York City, recent staff cuts have forced some informal teachers to concentrate on keeping unruly children from interrupting, and to neglect unassertive children. But the method does bring results. After three years of open classrooms, third-graders at P.S. 144 were among the few in Harlem reading up to national standards. More important, the children show qualities that tests cannot measure: self-discipline and eagerness to work on their...
...boys succeed because they really want to die, says Psychologist Cantor, which explains their choice of such failure-proof methods as hanging and shooting. She notes that society expects more of males than of females, so that boys who doubt their sexual prowess or career prospects may see death as the only way out. By contrast, a suicide try by a young girl may be less an attempt to die than "a cry for help, a reaching out for human contact, love and attention." The method chosen (sleeping pills, for example) often permits rescue...
...Lincoln Center cost $184 million, took ten years to complete, and disrupted traffic and residential life over a 14-acre area for much of that time. The other way is to take an existing theater, such as an abandoned movie palace, and simply refurbish it. This more modest method may produce less grand results, but it is cheaper, quicker and less traumatic for the surrounding community...
...Butterflies. Sarnoff's zeal to be first with color TV led him into an epic battle with William Paley's CBS. RCA developed a "compatible" broadcast method that could send color and black-and-white signals on special color TVs, but CBS, with a superior picture, won the Federal Communications Commission's license to proceed commercially. Sarnoff ordered his engineers back to their labs. Three years later, they produced a high-quality compatible system. The FCC reversed itself, and CBS lost a big round...