Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is method in Matty's seeming madness about U.S. competitors. Before the war, Indonesia was the hallowed preserve of Dutch and British traders and cartels (notably tin and rubber), which all but shut U.S. business out of the islands' billion-dollar-a-year (at '48 prices) trade. Matty Fox is determined to keep them from regaining their hold. Last week he was making the rounds of U.S. companies, inviting them to step right through the archipelago's open door-when it opens...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...
...compensate for a lack of "visual cues," the kinesthetic method supplies tactile ones: her students begin by tracing a word with their fingers until it can be written without a model. They learn only the words they need for the "stories" she has them write. After these stories are written, she has them typed so that the proud author learns to recognize his words in print. Once a word is learned, the tracing model of it is stowed away in a "dictionary box" for future reference. The word must never be copied from the model; that would involve distracting...
Some rival practitioners in remedial reading believe that Dr. Fernald puts too much emphasis on the sense of touch, though admitting that her method has its advantages for many children. Her rivals are inclined to attribute her successes not so much to her method as to her gifts as a teacher...
...Father Fallon, who calls his technique "Getting Them Up on the Rectory Porch," points out that many a potential convert is embarrassed at approaching a priest, and would rather read about Catholicism at home before ringing the rectory doorbell. Paid advertising in newspapers and magazines is the best method of reaching such prospects, says Father Fallon...