Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four Yale Deans allocated 1,000 freshmen among the Colleges in only five hours last week, Freshman Dean Whiteman said yesterday. This first step in the new experimental application system saved over a week compared to the old preferential method...
...Davis guarantees success with this method, since people treasure these little accolades. (Accolades is not in the book, but if you ever care to use it, it's pronounced ak-oh-laids.) He also contributes an annecdote: "For example, a middle-aged woman proudly recalled that a high school boy friend had called her ravishing." What a middle-aged woman is doing with a high school boy friend anyway Mr. Davis seems willing to leave to N. V. Peale. But the principle is sound and if you should want to compliment a young lady, he is full of tips...
...chief and possibly fatal weakness in the organization of the Presidium is the lack of a pre-determined method of succession to power, he continued. While such a situation appears to invite dissension, Berman reminded his audience that the majority of Presidium members have held their posts for 15 years or more...
...Flesch adds, U.S. educators by and large refuse to recognize the word method's shortcomings. Reading failures are merely blamed on "poor eyesight ... or a broken home ... or an Oedipus complex or sibling rivalry...
...teaching of reading be improved? In essence, Author Flesch urges a return to the old phonetic method still used in Europe. Reading should be taught like shorthand, i.e., by writing and reading at the same time with "pure, unadulterated, old-fashioned drill" in the ABCs and the sounds they make. When the child can write each letter and knows its sound, he should go on to letter combinations. Moreover, the five-year-old can start right in on nursery tales and fables, e.g., Henny Penny and The House That Jack Built. With this "phonics" method, says Flesch, educators and parents...