Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.O.P. organization, Mark Hanna who could water down or wreck T.R.'s programs in Congress, Mark Hanna who could ruin T.R.'s influence by blocking his nomination in 1904. So T.R., ruthlessly shrugging off Hanna's loyal promises to cooperate, condemned Hanna to political death. Method of death: rapid-fire dismissal of pro-Hanna Republicans from patronage jobs in Hanna's Midwestern strongholds, installation of pro-T.R. types-"the right sort...
...play uses a classic stage form, the brittle conversation piece. In terms of smart brushes and insulting banter, this has its good points; but seldom were a classic action and a classic method so mismated. 'Stage struggles over a will make for melodrama or serious drama, farce or sardonic comedy, for banged fists, shaking fingers or skinny claws-but not for the playfully brandished rapier. Fencing verbally, the brothers sometimes neatly pink each other, even achieve an occasional moral louche. But they use buttoned foils on synthetic flesh. Nor, in place of human drama, is there any real psychological...
Keynesian economics, for many years a dirty word in the Republican Party's rhetoric, has been accepted by the Administration more as a playtoy than an effective method of economic management. Fiscal policy planning is an awesome thing, something to be handled gingerly lest it dull all sensibility and impose itself on the player's mind...
...object of Bicker, according to a booklet published by the clubs themselves ("Now That You Are Eligible"), is to discover "personableness in the individual" and "congeniality of the total section." It is a method for assuring each club that any student to whom it offers a bid is of the "club type...
...Oedipus Rex revised and enlarged. The Cocteau version, which is 24 years old, does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and includes scene after scene that Sophocles did without. It uses a legitimate method of getting out of a classical rut and taking a fresh modern slant. The result is interesting without being successful...