Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those J. Press suits and think he's Ivy League, they find out he went to Yale and immediately assume he thinks a certain way. But he is a genuinely witty man. He is a questioner, really. You ask him a simple question and he employs the Socratic method for 45 minutes. It drives me absolutely crazy...
...that bear down on the people who have invited him in, inciting and directing anger against those causes, building popular movements, and working out tactics the movements can use to win power, and gain some real measure of control over community life. Over and over. Alinsky has made his method work: his localized revolutions have taken the power they were after. His book is, among other things, a handbook in what he calls (with characteristic immodesty) the Alinsky method: " The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written...
...confronting in characteristic stance the lugubrious subject of U.S. public education. Everything Herndon observes takes place in the "Spanish Main" intermediate school in "Tierra Firma," a thinly disguised middle-class suburb of San Francisco, where Herndon has taught for years. He appears to have tried every kind of pedagogical method, from applying a full quota of "reading" workbooks in a backward class to running a mini-free school where kids could come and go as they pleased. The results, though touched by humor and humanity, are disheartening...
...director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, disagreed with the group's desire to isolate South Africa from the rest of the scientific world. "I agreed completely with their motivations but the methodology of creating an intellectual blockade in education, arts, or the sciences I consider an unsound method of bringing about that scat of change," Whipple said...
...that mars the production is caused by this deadening regularity of style. The vignette approach is good for portraying isolated events in the lives of almost any number of people; when those lives start to change, to create patterns that intermesh, fall apart, and re-form, the same mechanical method is increasingly ineffective. Any new elements of character are discontinuous with previous characterization. When the rapist is finally revealed, for example, the revelation makes no sense in terms of what we were previously told about his character. The play eventually becomes a series of scenes interesting in themselves, but meaningless...