Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stripped of its apocalyptic tone, what this amounts to is an advocacy of teaching names, dates and places by rote and providing a context later. Hirsch acknowledges that the method has been derided since Dickens satirized Pedant Thomas Gradgrind ("Facts, sir; nothing but Facts!") in Hard Times. But, he counters, "it isn't facts that deaden the minds of young children, who are storing facts in their minds every day with astonishing voracity. It is incoherence -- our failure to ensure that a pattern of shared, vividly taught, and socially enabling knowledge will emerge from our instruction...
...cash flow of needy governments. Unlike banks, which postpone only the repayment of principal on loans, the Paris Club will postpone the payback of both principal and interest, thus freeing up additional credit for use by the debtor. In the past two years, club governments have used this method to add $15 billion to the coffers of petitioning debtors...
...Seoul's Myongdong Roman Catholic Cathedral. The protesters eventually left of their own accord. Secretary of State George Shultz, who was attending an ASEAN foreign ministers' conference in Singapore, declared, "Our advice is somehow to resume the process of dialogue between the government and the opposition so that a method of establishing a democratic tradition can be worked out in a mutually agreeable way." Even President Reagan felt obliged to add his concern. According to the New York Times, the President sent a letter to Chun urging him to reopen talks with the opposition aimed at reaching a compromise...
...Democratic Justice Party, on the other hand, preferred a parliamentary rather than a presidential form of government. Looking ahead to the possibility that they could become a minority in the next election, party leaders decided a parliamentary system could still allow its leaders to retain control of Parliament. One method: the government party can buy off minor parties to get enough votes to counter a split opposition. One segment of the opposition was amenable to the parliamentary idea, but negotiations dragged on for months without reaching a compromise, and both sides can be blamed for obstinacy. But Chun angered...
...with the mediocre performance of last year's undergraduate speaker, I am concerned that the process of choosing speakers has become a travesty. Only my memory of the stirring performance given by last year's graduate speaker, and this year's Latin Oration, give me hope that the present method of choosing speakers can be reformed--perhaps by a more careful selection of judges or the addition of student representatives to the board...