Word: method
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
COMMON Cause, the newly-created people's lobby, exercises unique new methods for precipitating governmental change: a mixture of political guerrilla warfare by the membership and frontal assault by lobbyists in Washington. This combination of savvy political lobbyists working directly on Capitol Hill, and a large membership pressuring their individual Representatives and Senators has proven an extremely effective method of promoting change. John Gardner, founder of Common Cause, believes that there is no more effective means of making a politician act responsibly than by letting him feel that he is being watched...
There was some speculation that the coaches would depart from this method. Harvard's head coach Bill McCurdy discussed the selection of the team with his Yale counterpart Bob Giegengack after the Heptagonals meet in Pailadelphia last Saturday. After some discussion, they decided to stick to the original method...
Reviewers were wont to acclaim Forman's earlier filmed anecdotes for exposing the drabness of life in an industrial socialist state. His method: to depict characters whose development is short-circuited by necessary compromise to the social structure. That Forman would make the same kind of film in the United State indicates that his vision is more suited to the acceptance of a restrictive state than criticizing...
Frank H. Westheimer '35, Loeb Professor of Chemistry and head of the new task force, admitted that there was some controversy about the best method of undergraduate science education, but emphasized that the task force was concerned with both science and conscience concentrators and had come to no decisions about the center...
...films of French Director Eric Rohmer are so literary in method that they practically force viewers to grope for apt novelistic comparisons. His My Night at Maud's was suffused with a Catholic sensibility that evoked thoughts of Mauriac and James Joyce. Claire's Knee, with its themes of memory and desire, had critics remembering Proust. La Collectionneuse (The Collector), the third of Rohmer's irony-laden "moral tales" to reach the U.S., may well get audiences to thumbing their Nabokov...