Word: methodic
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Using what they call the polydiagnostic* method of assessment, Tufts University Sociologists Edward M. Bennett and Harriet M. Goodwin set out to analyze the U.S. woman as a political creature. Before the American Sociological Society convention in Washington last week, they presented their findings in the language of Freud rather than that of Carmine De Sapio or Leonard Hall...
Trap at Night. At Cornell University Medical College, Drs. Mary H. Loveless and William R. Fackler have worked out a painstaking method of trapping bees and wasps by chloroforming them in the nests at night, storing them in a freezer, and performing delicate surgery to remove their venom sacs while they are in a half-frozen stupor. The venom from the sacs is pooled, then injected in small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere...
Because surgery to remove venom sacs is so difficult, commercial producers of immunizing extracts prefer to grind up the whole insects and make them into an injectable preparation. (In this method, one school argues, there may be a danger of sensitizing a subject to allergy-causing proteins from other parts of the insect's body.) At the Hollister-Stier Laboratories in Spokane, Bacteriologist Edward L. Foubert Jr. has concluded that only a few species of Hymenoptera are important stingers in any one area, and that since most victims do not know just which varieties have stung them...
Columbia's innovation focuses on the basic problem of all radar: how to amplify the returning echo of the electromagnetic wave after it bounces off the target, without simultaneously amplifying the random electrical interference that is also picked up by the receiver. Heretofore, the usual method of improving reception has been the brute-force approach of multiplying the power of the signal. But this multiplication requires costly and cumbersome equipment, is impractical for such isolated sites as the arctic...
Johnston not only disapproves of realism but also lashes out against the Stanislavsky method of acting. "The illusion of realism in the theatre is one of the biggest illusions of all. The slice of life is no more real than melodrama, which is considered outdated. To tell the actor to go out on the stage and imagine he's wrestling with an alligator is useless except in a play such as Peter Pan, which is not in the Stanislavsky tradition...