Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Commonwealth simply represents "the lowest common denominator of consent." It has no constitution or common law applicable to all members; none is pledged to come to the defense of any of the others. There are no obligations or set meetings, no voting procedures or joint policies, and no stated method of .applying for admittance or of being rejected...
Between the excellent Method acting of Academy Award Winner Joanne Woodward, 28, and the thinly silverplated style with which Martha Hyer, 34, attempts to replace Princess Grace, the town's new crop of females comes in assorted types and talents. Some examples...
...Duvalier, who has been running the country in one-man style, will be out of action for weeks, and his political enemies are using his illness in their war of nerves. The most effective method is a vicious appeal to voodoo believers, who are convinced that Duvalier is powerful because of ouangas that he planted about Port-au-Prince. As every practitioner of voodoo knows, the surest way to deprive a charm of its power is to apply human excrement. Last week the President's enemies went after what was supposed to be one of his strongest ouangas...
Storm Trouble. The most sensitive way to detect distant earthquakes-or underground atomic explosions-is by measuring the long waves that travel along the earth's surface instead of striking deep into its interior. Drawback to this method is that even such minor disturbances as a storm at sea set up shorter surface waves (microseisms) that obscure or blot out the record. The Lamont improvement is an ingenious filtering device that separates earthquake waves from local confusion...
More than this, however, there exists a clear pervasive spirit of questioning, skepticism, tolerence--in sum, an apotheois of relativism and tolerance. At Harvard the values of relativism are quickly transformed from means to ends, from mere method to metaphysics they become the "practical postulates" of a University which wants to embrace spokesmen for opposing views in a harmonious institution. Even the religious person, moreover the believer in salvation through a particular church, must divorce his role of believer from his role of teacher. If he would teach he cannot by direct methods fish for souls...