Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British, their power and prestige gravely shaken by the latest in a series of humbling retreats, decided to make a show of standing firm in Cyprus. The method they chose came right out of Kipling's yellowing text: they banished the bearded Archbishop Makarios, spiritual and temporal leader of the Cypriots, to an equatorial Indian Ocean island. They hoped thereby to hold Cyprus, but had they merely made sure of losing...
Heschel calls his method "depth theology." He is concerned "not so much [with] what the person is able to express as that which he is unable to express, the insights that no language can declare ..." Heschel divides the insights under three main headings - 1) God, 2) Revelation, 3) Response - and breaks them into a series of short med itations packed with spiritual aphorisms and surprises. Samples...
Although seniority is an established and expedient way of appointing chairmen to Congressional committees, and while it works well in the majority of cases, the method is far from perfect. To preserve the custom as the best of feasible methods, Congress has shown in the past that it will, in unusual circumstances, make exceptions. When to make these exceptions, and how general they should be, then becomes a problem for which it is almost impossible to set criteria. But three exceptions, among the thousands of appointments, indicate that the Senate puts a higher premium on tradition than on criteria...
...analytical method is valuable in making us aware of the meanings concealed by our stock reactions, Muir said. It was especially valuable in getting rid of superfluous romantic notions earlier in the century, he said...
...Criticism was salutary while it remained only an influence; but it has now become a sanctioned method, and has used this sanction to usurp power," Muir continued. He charged that the method was often used to find so many possible meanings in words or phrases of a poem, it concealed the principal meaning...