Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the return to peace, an army friend who was going to become professor of Physical Education at Springfield, persuaded McCurdy to join him and study for a Master of Education Degree. While there, he formed the basis of his present coaching method: "anyone can work with runners, but too many people are neglecting the field events." Proving his rule, McCurdy, in the last four years has developed the most vaunted middle distance runners in the Ivy League and in Al Wilson, Carl Goldman, and Bob Rittenburg some of the East's best field events men as well...
...improvise with a few improvisations on its improvisations. A saxophone would take over, add a few ideas of its own, and give it to the bass, or maybe back to the piano. Eventually they would all work back to the bare theme and the piece would end. This method alone is not enough to justify the term experimental. But the group at Adams was definitely experimenting. For one thing M.C. Tom Wilson constantly changed the makeup of the group. He shuttled in three different pianists and two drummers-on the conventional drum set-and used his three saxophones solo, duet...
Following the first concert, Boston critics gave rave notices to the Harvard Radcliffe singers. Penfield Roberts of the Boston Globe described Davison's method of introducing serious music to the singers: "He simply says, informally, words to this effect: 'Fellows, I've got a dandy new piece for you-listen.' Then he sits down and plays and sings it for them, and instead of being bored they like...
...drugs has significance far beyond the profession. On its resolution depends the full and effective use of important new psychiatric tools. Essentially the trouble goes back to the Freudian revolt against the 19th century's physiological approach to mental illness. Freud admitted that the usefulness of his method was virtually limited to the neuroses and could not yet reach the psyhoses. Experience has shown that it takes countless hours of the most grueling work by a topnotch psychotherapist to bring a "deteriorated" schizophrenic back to something like normal. Even if all U.S. psychiatrists dropped everything else and no more...
Aside from this defect, Cocteau has clevery combined realistic passions and humorous dialogue. His characters, hysterical as they are, manage to remain credible and funny at the same time. Their humor derives principally from the ancient method of dramatic irony-as when Madelaine tells Michael, "I was as found of George as I shall be of your father," and only the audience knows that George is Michael's father; and partly also from a simple exaggeration of emotions, as in the opening scene, when Yvonne's possessiveness and then Michael's naivete combine in a virtual parody of the Oedipus...