Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...self-respecting American kid these days, the hottest vehicle suddenly seems to be a 1964 Ford Econoline van, say, or a beat-up GMC or scruffy Dodge A100 or-for the hipper elements-a Volkswagen Microbus or panel truck suitably scrunched around the fenders. There is method to this madness for vans: in increasing numbers the chunky vehicles are serving not only as transportation but also as mobile homes for the nation's youth...
...UNDERACHIEVER. "The method of forestalling underachievement is to hold before the child at all times the allure and satisfaction of competence. If the home cannot do it, the school must, somehow. Success is always defined by the child as being the center of attention for the universe or some portion of it. So once a child discovers that he becomes a center of concern and attention by being incompetent, it is tragically easy for him to play this incompetence and acquire strength through weakness...
...seven primitive tribesmen from Western Papua were haled into a Port Moresby court where they were charged with improperly and indecently interfering with a corpse. A fellow villager had been killed in a family feud, and they had volunteered to dispose of the remains. Their method: to cut up the body, cook it in a well-thickened stew...
After due deliberation, Judge William Prentice ruled that cannibalism is a normal and reasonable behavior for some remote New Guinea villagers. Said the judge: "I do not consider that the legislature had in contemplation the banning of a method of disposal of the body, namely by eating, as an alternative to burial or cremation." That left the defendants free to go home. The court interpreter, a tribal sorcerer, went back to prison where he is serving time for the murder of a rival...
...specific things was chewing doors. The teaching method? Simple: "We smeared the doorjambs with peanut butter." Another task: to nibble on people. Di Sesso's son, 18, spent a good part of three months lying down in a large box, his body covered with peanut butter, while baby rats ate their fill. "We kept adding more and more rats until finally we had 200 crawling over him," says Di Sesso. Young Di Sesso admits to having been a bit frightened at first, but by the end "I was laughing out loud." Reason? They tickled...