Word: methodic
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This piecewise method of exploring the personal histories of Koltsovo's residents and their families has the remarkable effect of compressing time. Echoes of a Native Land is not a particularly quick read. The narrative reflects research and experience spanning 17 years of the author's life. Yet by not relating the past in chronological order, Schmemann is able to condense 200 years of history into the blink of an eye. As a whole, this compressed history expresses a sense of waste and of sadness for communism's unfortunate effects on Russia's fate and for the country's difficulties...
...This method of time compression is effective in that it provides apersonal connection to history. The events of the past 200 years are not described as affecting faceless numbers of peasants and aristocrats but as affecting individuals with names and, occasionally, faces. At the same time, however, the book does not lose sight of the larger issues, allowing the import of the book to be more general than the isolated story of one family's experiences...
While the author's diverging and converging method of writing provides an effective impression of Koltsovo, the place, as the sum of the motivations and experiences of its people through-out recent history, the style also leads at times to confusion. The narrative requires that thereader remember earlier references to town residents and family members, several of whom have very similar names, and keep straight the times of different events, organizing them into the proper sequence...
...questions, and many of the results, were also reviewed at the request of The Crimson by Associate Professor of Statistics Alan Zaslavsky, who teaches "Statistics 160: Survey Method...
LONDON: Back in 1991, the IRA tried to shell 10 Downing Street. Now their political representative is using a more conventional method to gain access: Walking in the front door. Following their controversial handshake in Belfast two months ago, Tony Blair invited Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to pop round the Prime Minister's residence Thursday for a cup of tea. Talk about historic ? it's the first time since the partition of Ireland 76 years ago that any member of that party has been near Downing Street. Without a mortar bomb in hand, that...