Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alexandra intends to get to the top, by any and every method that she believes won't compromise her sexual, academic or human integrity. For two years before she came to Harvard, she acted in two soaps, "One Life to Live" and "All My Children." While she has been here, she has continued to keep one foot in show biz, singing in night clubs in addition to acting in Harvard theater and the occasional film. "I don't know how it's going to happen, so I'm preparing for all the possibilities," she says. Last week, she auditioned successfully...
...strengths and weaknesses of the book are those of the Backhousian method. Rather than patiently penetrating the mysteries of history step by painstaking step, as would a professional Sinologue, both the historian and the historian he is writing about prefer to assault the gloom head on, neglecting details and looking only for the general pattern that emerges. For Backhouse this meant creating new details each time he needed to give credence to an already created story. For Trevor-Roper this means emphasizing certain old details in order to give credence to a new story...
...long as Trevor-Roper remains within the realm of these Backhousian mysteries, his truth about the method to the madness of the hermit of Peking rings true. In this context, the author's contention that Backhouse spent his life imaginatively substituting himself for those who were intimate with Verlaine, Lord Rosebery, the Empress Dowager, and other sources of power, is convincing...
...also has by present estimates more than 1.8 trillion bbl. of oil locked in shale in the Rocky Mountain states-about 15 times the nation's estimated potential reserves from conventional sources. Burning the oil out of the shale-the most promising method-would require a market price of perhaps as much as $25 per bbl. to make it profitable. Yet even at the present average U.S. price of $11.50 per bbl. for newly discovered domestic oil, Ashland Oil and Occidental Petroleum last month were given federal approval to begin development of a joint shale-oil project in western...
HITS will provide the community with interesting stories and useful information about on-campus events, he said, adding it will promote video television as a method of communication...