Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school is concerned, it may be that it will be remembered as the Year of Rudolf Flesch. In his bestselling book Why Johnny Can't Read (TIME, March 14), Flesch baldly accused the U.S. public school of having completely abandoned phonics (the letter-by-letter, syllable-by-syllable method of teaching reading) in favor of the word recognition or look-and-say method (memorizing words as wholes...
...spite of the headlines, the experts are now fairly well agreed that they have found the best method to date for teaching reading. It is really a combination of several ways to attack words and sentences, and it includes both word-recognition and phonics. Unfortunately, at a time when good teachers are at a premium, the system demands rare teaching skill. Thus, practice may vary from good to bad, but the theory remains consistent...
...conflict, therefore revolted him. "Early in my life," he once explained to his wife, "I found man ugly, and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict [that] my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Marc's method was to bind the animals he painted into strong, elaborately rhythmical compositions. That made them seem atone with their environment, which was the state he himself longed for. He transformed their animality with flashing colors; a horse might be sky blue or fire...
...breed oats resistant to Helminthosporium victoriae blight, Dr. Wheeler decided to copy the method of the bacteriologists. He reports in Science that he sprouted 100 bu. of oats (about 45 million grains), then doused the sprouted seeds with the toxin (poisonous secretion) of the Helminthosporium fungus, and later with the fungus itself. Out of the 45 million, 973 seedlings survived and grew. Thirty days later they were treated with all the other oat diseases, and 471 survived the second ordeal...
...national monument," the doctor tells him. "That monument must be ... defaced." The method: "I intend to find his weakness and use it to destroy him." In a word: brainwash...