Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...
...struggle for the good will of Southeast Asia, the sprawling, rich kingdom of Thailand (pop. 20.3 million) is a test case in diplomatic method. Thailand has long been friendly to the United States and has benefited from generous U.S. economic and military aid. But in recent months Thailand, like many another Asian country, has been drifting toward the left...
...Presley impetuously leaned over and gave her a love bite on the hand. The lady reporter protested. Wagging his tail cordially, Dixie Pixy Presley drawled: "I was only trying to be friendly, like a little puppy dog." This explanation was rejected, so Elvis got down to the crass method in his madness: "Lady, if you want to get ahead, you gotta be different...
...laboratories of experience in which students learn chiefly by pragmatic problem solving. From all these, says Brameld, the reconstructionist has borrowed, but he finds each, in its own way, inadequate. Perennialism leads to dogma and false orthodoxies; essentialism stagnates in the status quo; the progressivists, while strong on method, are not sure what they should be educating...
...educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader to know Mencken better. Angoff's strip-poker method of characterization rarely gets under the man's skin; it merely shows he had one. "Say any damn thing you please," Mencken once told Angoff, "only never say I was a Christian." Angoff has kept the promise by making him a kind of village atheist. In the process...