Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plague it promised to heal." Berrigan urged the Weatherman to "do only that which one cannot not do," and reminded them that "the history of the movement in the last years, it seems to me, shows how constantly and easily we are seduced by violence, not only as a method but as to an end in itself. With very little politics, very little ethics, very little direction and only a minimum of moral sense, if any at all, it might lead one to conclude in despair: the movement is debased beyond recognition. I can't be part...
...privileged vanguard of the second world revolution? Because, says Revel, America has invented a new revolutionary method that other nations have been incapable of engendering on their own. That method is dissent, "a revolutionary judo without precedent," an "all-enveloping and erratic sedition" with which governments cannot cope. For the revolution to succeed, there must be widespread criticism...
...votes in the 200-seat Congress are necessary to assure passage of any legislation proposed by Allende's leftist coalition. The President, however, is getting around that barrier by purchasing private bank stock with government bonds; the regime has already bought 20% of all bank shares by this method, though it controls only three non-government banks outright...
...choice and dedication, James Jones is a peculiarly American American novelist. His method is oldfashioned, gulp-and-sob realism. His characters-most frequently, of late, the American newly rich who took the cash and let the culture go-are presented pretty much in their own words. The result often brings to mind Nancy Mitford's unkind remark that citizens of the U.S. speak English as if wrestling with a foreign tongue. That confronts the thoughtful pro-Jones reader with a dilemma. If Jones takes these clichés seriously, can he be any smarter than the people he writes...
...Adams House students who voted, 95 (63 per cent) said that Adams should not send representatives to the CRR, regardless of the method used for selection. Twenty-one students (14 per cent) said that Adams should send representatives to the CRR if a method of selection other than the 11-man committee were used. Thirty-two students (23 per cent) voted to send representatives under the present plan. Less than half of the House voted on the referendum...