Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marxism the way a Western politician operates against the background of Christianity." Mikoyan once said to a friend: "I am not a man to invent policies but to carry them out." Nonetheless, Soviet specialists in Washington believe that such features of Khrushchev's foreign policy as the subtle method of taking the West by flank movement, by intrigue and envelopment of neutrals rather than by head-on attack, bear the stamp of the agile Armenian. These days Mikoyan likes to tell visitors from the East, as Stalin did before him, "I am an Asian too." No Soviet leader...
...most difficult forms of the disease) was reported to Zurich by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, director of Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Key to the treatment: "complete depatterning" of the patient's mind through shock therapy and deep sleep. Unlike brainwashing, Psychiatrist Cameron's method does not seek to implant alien ideas in the mind, but rather to break the chain of schizophrenic reactions and leave the mind free to reorganize itself. Granting that the method is "a sharp tool," Cameron considers it justified for the most stubborn cases, declares this controversial technique has proved "more successful...
...limiting the subject to a fixed language for responding to any question, the method supplies quantified results of known reliability...
Spence thinks that "subliminal registration," e.g., below the threshold of consciousness, can work even without the subject's cooperation. Thus, ambitious opinion shapers of the future might possibly sell their political candidate-or breakfast food-by the supersoft-sell method of subconscious sight, flashing their slogans into living rooms under cover of a televised horse opera. Chuckles one TV executive with a conscious eye on the future: "It smacks of brainwashing, but of course it would be tempting...
Francis Hopkinson (1737-91) was a Philadelphia lawyer ("One of your pretty, little, curious, ingenious men," wrote John Adams), inventor of an improved method of quilling the harpsichord, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first native American composer. He wrote several English-flavored songs, a quantity of church music and an "oratorial entertainment" entitled The Temple of Minerva, which his scattered fans claim as the first American opera. His most ambitious work was Seven Songs, dedicated to his old friend George Washington, who confessed that "I can neither sing one of the songs, nor raise a single note...