Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard's business school works by the case method, and 50 percent of your grade is based on participation," she says. "The more work experience you have, you have more relative contributions in class...
...This method didn't work too well either. Yet again, the visitors engineered another spurt, this time an 11-3 run. Harvard would never be close again...
Offering comfort to Dole last week, the former British Prime Minister and co-architect of the war against Iraq said, "Did you ever hear of anything so absurd as to go after the runway but not the aircraft? I must say on the whole, my method of tackling aggression was quite a good one." In a Daily Mail commentary excoriating Hurd, defense analyst and Oxford historian Mark Almond concluded, "Whitehall's indignation at American criticism is all the more heated because it masks a bad conscience." His view was echoed in Washington by a similar criticism of Clinton...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting...
Conservative faculty members stood by the traditional case study method and Socratic lecture format while liberal agitators, hired between the late '60s and mid '80s, demanded greater freedom to implement what was known as Critical Learning Studies (CLS). Harvard's highest offices resisted a number of appointments which would have diversified campus ideology. Fueled by pre-existing animosities between liberals and conservatives, opposition on hiring practices developed into personal and divisive debate which poisoned the atmosphere, inspired student demonstrations and long sit-ins, and compelled the first Black tenured professor, Derrick Bell, to leave the school in protest...