Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touching, muffled cries and lonely moments. In the mother he has created an interesting variation on a type, and in mother and son he has clearly sought to probe one of the most difficult and tangled of human relationships. That he has not done so seems due partly to method and partly to mood. The dancer's role, whatever its own interest or its catalyst value, somehow obstructs the son and mother story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short play, Inge has further tossed comedy bits involving theater types and neighbor boys, and a farcical bed-hopping...
...result in the exclusion of underground tests from the agreement. The efficiency could be restored by several simple measures: seismographs located at the bottom of deep holes to minimize background noise, unmanned seismographs every 100 miles in certain areas rather than every 600 as formerly suggested, or the "inelegant method" of increasing the number of seismographs at each station from...
...spite of a dangerous scarcity of epee men, the fencing team should do very well in Ivy League competition this year, Coach Edo Marion said last night. Marion is currently using a new training method which he hopes will ease the excessive tension some swordsmen feel during a match, as will as teaching them the "right psychological moment" to strike...
...Nick Adams, Dean Stockwell gave the impression that he had learned The Method at Hotchkiss, but Dane Clark and Robert Middleton were smooth and competent as the killers, and so was Ray Walston as the frightened owner of the lunchroom in which the killers reveal their plot. Beyond the brief Hemingway dialogue, the show was distinguished only by the Swedish fighter. In a flashback to a Chicago gym, where he was coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death...
...stance of the U.S. in world affairs merely that of preserver of the status quo? Is U.S. foreign policy enmeshed in illusion, maladroit in method and impotent to achieve its stated ends...