Word: method
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Although Pasqualini is finally transformed into a dedicated, right-thinking worker and prisoner, it is evident from his alert recognition of the method involved, even as the change is taking place in him, that he has not become an automaton. The mode of thought expected of him has been clarified; he feels supported and supportive--even more so when the French government rebuffs his written appeals. On a very basic level, his assimilation represents the kind of adjustment generally expected of its members by any social system...
...proposed method of reducing cost which relies solely on employee attrition is indicative of the University's lack of concern for the welfare of its workers. The student-worker unity displayed in defeating this proposal is an effective response to such an attitude...
...dissident in the U.S.S.R. and his three-year purgatory in Soviet prisons and mental hospitals. He had been accused of anti-Soviet activities, namely protesting the arrests and trials of other dissidents and publishing his views in samizdat (underground) publications. In what is now a classic Soviet method of punishing dissidents, Plyushch was interrogated, imprisoned and finally sent to an insane asylum administered by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. His account of his experience is perhaps the most damning indictment so far of the way that the Soviets try to stifle protest...
With her second child expected later this month, Actress Tuesday Weld probably had maternity rather than method acting on her mind during the filming of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood. The ABC-TV film, to be shown on March 7, stars Exorcist Actor Jason Miller as the Lost Generation novelist (The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night) and Weld as his exotic and eventually psychotic wife Zelda. Unlike Miller, who read a small shelf of Fitzgerald books and biographies before tackling the script, Weld insists that she did absolutely nothing to prepare for her role. "What appealed to me most...
...cold-weather injuries, is a pioneer of the new therapy. Writing in Emergency Medicine, he describes a typical course of treatment. If the victim is still out in the field several hours away from professional help, says Mills, rescuers should quickly attempt to thaw the frostbitten part; one method is to tuck a frozen hand, say, under the rescuer's armpit. The temperature, in any case, should be about 100° F.; anything much higher than body temperature can cause further harm, as can refreezing. To protect the fragile tissue, it should be wrapped in clean padding; fingers...