Word: method
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...place in The Netherlands. The Dutch fighters, many of them chic and in their 20s, call themselves Dolle Minas, or Mad Minas. The name comes from the appellative that was usually applied to Wilhemina ("Mina") Drucker, a Dutch 19th century suffragette. The Dolle Minas have mirth as well as method in their madness. To attract attention, they burned a corset in front of Mina's statue in Amsterdam. Then they marched through the city and defiantly pinned bright pink ribbons across the portals of men's public toilets as a protest against the lack of similar facilities...
...PROBLEM of literary biography is old and unresolved. The great nineteenth-century French critic Sainte-Beuve held that a biographical method was a hermeneutic one. "Tell me who admires and loves you, and I shall tell you who you are," he said, and his literary criticism is studded with biographical detail gleaned from conversations with artists' greengrocers...
Morse's own method of attack has been to arrange his book in alternating chapters devoted to periods of Stevens' life and to the poetry written during them. The chapters on the poetry trace the development of Stevens' artistic career. They are mostly interesting, competent, efficient; they provide some illuminating new readings, and the careful scholarship they display is impeccable. The biographical chapters, however, are ghastly: without color, without flair, without a wealth of detail, and worst, without passion...
Since the children are overactive and irritable, it seems illogical to treat them with pep-pills. Psychiatrists doing research along traditional lines would not have been likely to hit upon this method. The discovery of the drugs' effect was made by Dr. Charles Bradley at the Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital in Rhode Island in 1937, when he gave Benzedrine to 30 children who had a variety of behavior disorders. The stimulant calmed those who were hyperkinetic, and also improved their school performance. But Bradley's pioneering work was virtually ignored for almost 20 years, mainly perhaps because...
...Louis last year, School Superintendent William Kottmeyer devised a new method for making new words alluring to 24,000 children, 68% of whom are black. For three grades (fourth through sixth), Kottmeyer isolated several hundred potentially baffling words and used them in his own rewrites of classical myths and fables. Three times a week for eight months, the stories and lessons were broadcast into classrooms via the school system's own FM station. Pupils were pretested and retested each time; cumulative exams were given every three weeks...