Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus Herbert Brownell could and did raise Justice Department morale. He could and did prove himself a lawyer first and a politician second. He could and did streamline the department machinery. Without these achievements he could not have written his record. But the achievements in method were not enough. The job of Attorney General demands a special sort of courage. It requires a man willing to walk a lonely road in applying the laws in such vital fields as security, antitrust and civil rights, the laws that reach dramatically into the very blood and muscle of the nation...
...bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...
...vitality, truth. If, indeed, as Mr. Jencks says, the world is irrational, of what use is the constructive mind, save perhaps to depict it, to "breed one work that wakes." Mr. Jencks' fundamental error, I believe, was in allowing an aesthetic criticism of the proundity of Mr. Levin's method of literary analysis to develop into a moral issue denouncing withdrawl into the world of words as a sin of deprivation against mankind. Far from sinning, the men of words produce perhaps one of the greater goods to be found in this world. They create a world of beauty...
...full-time job assignments of ten weeks each are integrated with 26 weeks of classroom work at Radcliffe. The case method is used for classroom instruction, taught primarily by members of the Business School faculty...
...method of piano pedagogy more modern than Etude appeared in the magazine's wake. Chicago's educational TV channel, WTTW, last week introduced a program of weekly keyboard lessons. On the screen Pianist Carroll H. LeFavor leads two pupils up and down the scales. In 4,000 Illinois homes children follow LeFavor's fingering through the half-hour lessons. Most attractive feature of the lessons, to parents and neighbors: the home course, sold for $1 by a local instrument firm, includes a cardboard keyboard guaranteed to guard against resounding wrong notes...