Word: methodically
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Also in absentia was Dolores Kreiger, ProfessorEmerita at New York University, who received theScience Education Ig Nobel for "demonstrating themerits of therapeutic touch," a method by which acaretaker manipulates the energy fields of ailingpatients by carefully avoiding physical contactwith patients...
...onset, their intentions were not necessarily bad. One psychotherapist would sit in the urine of her schizophrenic patients to "prove she was no better than them." Another would bring autistic children to his home, convinced that their real parents were "killing them." Even John Rosen believed that his belligerent methods of "shock therapy" could jolt his patients into reality. But the progeny of these psychotherapists' "good intentions" was not a new cure--only a new method for assigning blame...
Nicholi's lecture "The Scientific Method and the Moral Law" was the first in a series of three lectures examining the conflicting world-views of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis. The lectures will continue tonight and tomorrow night in Memorial Church...
...efforts to evolve from a comic actor into a thespian, JIM CARREY may be taking this Method-acting thing a tad too far. Recently, we reported that on the set of the ANDY KAUFMAN biopic Man on the Moon, Carrey asked for two separate trailers, one to play Kaufman and one to play Kaufman's alter ego, Tony Clifton. Last week, while filming a scene with wrestler Jerry Lawler, a bruiser who once put Kaufman in a neck brace, Carrey spontaneously spit on the wrestler in an unscripted move. Lawler, apparently also deep in character, charged Carrey...
...charge of stock brokerage, contends. He has gone to war against Internet trading in a series of public speeches, chronicled last week in the Wall Street Journal, urging individuals to abandon their free-trading ways and stick with the good old-fashioned (and expensive) hand-holding, broker-to-client method at which Merrill Lynch excels--and on which it is betting its future...