Word: method
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Criticism of the present Law curriculum was directed, the report says, at the school's emphasis on corporate law; "an overemphasis on socratic technique and case method" in teaching; the small size and homogeneity of the Faculty; the limited participation of students in Law School decision-making; and the slight representation of women and minority groups in the student body and Faculty...
...printed words largely by familiarity with their shapes and placement in sentences, the Scott, Foresman authors argue that children should start the same way and later add systematic phonics, which involves the teaching of sounds of individual letters, diphthongs and the like. In short, the old "look-say" reading method has survived in new forms despite all the critics who prefer phonics from the start. On balance, says Dr. Carl Smith of Indiana University's Reading and Evaluation Center, "Many of our traditional approaches have been successful with many children, but chiefly those with normal cultural experiences, a typical...
...takes his title, the film tries to step inside the allegory it sets up and give itself to a wide-eyed fascination with the workings of vice. Saura has learned from Bunuel, whom he openly imitates at times, how to use sensual indulgences to make an intellectual point. His method is to instruct by allowing participation- in a drowning fantasy, a hunting sequence, or in the grotesque rituals of over-acted sexuality...
...quintessential Ionesco play: a nightmare of wholly clogged, overrun world. Words, persons, things, and animals proliferate in a slambang of entrances and exits that snowball in a confusion of ceaseless movement. Theatricality and insanity, the two most potent themes of modern theater, are the subject as well as the method. A production of an Ionesco play involves almost as many problems as there are stage directions. The coordination of movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must have a constant momentum which increasingly bombards the audience without exhausting it; and most of all, the production...
...METHOD ACTING: Even a natural actor has to set about the business of learning how to act. Much of the learning process is finding out what not to do, like indulging in excesses. I've seen more talent ruined by what I call indulgence ?Method acting where they all get together and act for each other in a test-tube atmosphere. Many people work marvelously that way?Gerry Page, Gazzara, Brando?...