Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Believe it or not, in 1941 it was F.D.R. who said: "The Government of the United States will not order nor will Congress pass legislation ordering a closed shop . . . That would be too much like the Hitler method toward labor...
Such segregationist groups as the Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Councils concentrate unerringly on keeping the moderates silent and leaderless. Method No. 1 : In formers. One of the six men arrested in a Negro castration case turned out to be a Ku Klux Klan captain of intelligence - and a member of Alabama's interracial Council on Human Relations who had sat quietly through all council meetings. Method No. 2: Quick Mobilization. The Citizens' Councils have a chain-telephone-call system that can blanket the city in twelve hours. Method No. 3: Phone Threats. A Presbyterian minister...
...finger painter surveying his own handiwork. They knew what they were voting against (the old gang), but were now surprised by what they had voted for. Even Charles de Gaulle himself had not wanted the kind of right-wing majority he got. He had insisted on a single-constituency method of voting that was presumed to favor familiar names (principally the Socialists and Radicals) over a grab bag of unknowns styling themselves Gaullists, some of them able, many...
...debate over whether or not the College should institute a uniform rent system centers around the proposition that any other method would be obviously absurd for Quincy House. Upon examining the matter more closely, however, it is evident that such a uniform system would do far more harm than good...
...more than a year ago; we have made many changes since. More importantly, it sets up false alternatives: either, it implies, we must follow the Cornell system, or teach French, German, etc. as dead languages. We have managed to avoid both these extremes. (Even Cornell has recently modified its method to make it less flagrantly anti-humanistic.) Nor does anyone in the Division of Modern Languages, to my knowledge, believe in disregarding the "aural-oral" aspects. A synthesis is possible. In German A, for example, while we put great stress on speaking and listening, we manage to get the students...