Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mountie met seven times with Vartanian, with other Russians involved in arranging the rendezvous; some provided transportation, while others posted cryptic signals. One method was to stick tapes to a pillar in an Ottawa shopping center. According to written instructions given the Mountie, "Vertical position of tape-operation takes place in Montreal. Horizontal position-operation takes place in Ottawa. Yellow color-call for the regular meeting. Black color-call for instant meeting...
...technical," who left with a "specific and detailed knowledge of oil and gas prospects." That put Hirsch in a position to save Superior much time and money by telling which areas looked promising and which were duds. Mobil says he also knew its secret-bid calculation process, a complicated method of outguessing the competition in order to make bids for oil leases as low as possible, yet still win them. The Canadian suit named Arne R. Nielsen, president of Mobil Oil Canada, who was well versed in highly classified and arcane Mobil technology, including its airborne radar propane seep detector...
...courses taught from a historical perspective. The requirement originated in the praiseworthy idea that scientists should be introduced to the social implications of science and the moral issues it involves. But two years after Sputnik frightened America into expanding its science education program, the Faculty stopped using the historical method in its Gen Ed sciences courses and allowed science students to bypass Gen Ed science courses altogether. Apparently the Faculty was persuaded by a Faculty committee's call for "a larger pool of scientists," and allowed their liberal arts values to slide...
...this, Cunningham's baffling, inventive choreography is almost as controversial as ever--and he himself, an intensely private person, has offered no comprehensive explanations on either philosophy or method. What is certain is that his 25-year collaboration with avant-garde composer John Cage has been of major importance. Cage's concern with reevaluating the whole idea of music, with both reducing its definition to an almost untenable minimum and expanding its material to an almost unlimited scope, is parallelled in Cunningham's approach to dance...
Initially, Cunningham used such chance procedures as coin-tossing only to determine the order in which dance sequences would appear, not as a method of composition. Chance-directed composition is still relatively rare in his work. Yet even when chance processes direct the evolution of the dance itself, such surrender to chance is not at all the same as abandonment to chaos. Cunningham sees this technique of composition as "a mode of freeing my imagination from its own cliches," as he told the Herald's Cass, as a liberating activity which permits the dance to respond to the discipline...