Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group was mainly concerned with getting fuller records on the lower levels of command, and its chief method was on-the-spot interviews of units involved. For his work along these lines and for his monograph on Omaha beach. Taylor was awarded the Legion of Merit. In 1946 he was discharged as a colonel...
Basically this technique forces the performer to become an accomplished actor. Those on the stage are not allowed to look at the conductor. Instead they must set the pace of the music and provide cues for the conductor. The adherents of this method of presenting opera claim it is the only way to create a living performance. Other techniques, they assert, lead only to operatic concerts wherein the singers are puppets dressed in magnificent costumes and playing on elaborately decorated stages...
...defenses. In the first area, key elements of the Democratic program involve increased federal spending for aid to the aged, a national health insurance program, and stepped-up grants to finance education. Yet the Democratic plans as outlined in Stevenson's New America statements do not contemplate their "traditional" method of running the economy--financing governmental services out of additional taxes or fostering an inflationary surge to increase consumer buying power. Instead, the Democratic candidate is counting on the country's "explosive prosperity" to provide the new revenues for his programs out of a broader tax base. He proposes...
Dogmatic or not, Gold does represent one of the three leading positions on the purpose of science fiction. He emphasizes ideas in his magazine, not facts. (Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penecillin, "should have been horsewhipped," according to Gold. By using the "plodding scientific method," Fleming delayed for more than a decade the application of his discovery to medicine, he maintains...
...Dunster's day, however, the student had much less freedom than now. Everyone who wished to graduate had to follow a rigidly prescribed program. There were no courses in the modern sense, nor were three professors. Instead, the tutorial method was employed, with one tutor for each class. Students were promoted or demoted on their tutor's opinion of their industry and ability. Degrees were a more serious matter. Students had to go through searching oral examinations to get them...