Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cowboy tunes, including The Old Chisholm Trail ("Coma ti yi youpy, yappy yay, yappy yay, Coma ti yi youpy yappy yay," which probably sounded like static to Russian ears), a talk on a new cure for hay fever (the U.S. has 5,000,000 sufferers), and a new method of exploring the Milky Way. When the closing theme, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, went out over the air, Soviet Russia was still at least as distant as the Milky Way. Just as the Voice of America signed off, the Voice of Russia (Moscow Radio's foreign service) went...
...specialty is the physiology of the brain and central nervous system. U.S. doctors who have studied her solid, imaginative work agree that her discoveries may well be a milestone in the treatment of shock, tetanus, high blood pressure and many other disorders involving the central nervous system. Her method differs in technique and purpose from intraspinal injections used...
...complete sell-out of the original 2000 pressings of the Ivy League Album within two days of their release left University Band officials yesterday seeking a speedy method of making available another 2000 issues to meet the unexpected demand of students, alumni and faculty...
...solution exists, except possibly in the gradually developing taste of the musical comedy public. Already tired of crudely cooked offerings audiences have demanded more subtlety in musicals. "Annie Get Your Gun," while based on old formulae, displays great advances in technique and sophistication of method. And with its appetite whetted by occasional successful novelties such as "Finian's Rainbow" and "Street Scene," perhaps the public will come to require a complete change of diet...
These descriptive passages succeed brilliantly. Author Lowry presents the Mexican scene with such vivid lavishness that by the time the reader has reached the end of Under the Volcano there is not an unfamiliar bird, beast or grain of dust. But the method which succeeds so well in regard to landscape is unendurable in regard to the human mind and soul. Author Lowry's psychoanalysis-with its interminable interior monologues and devotion to the tiniest turns of thought-results in a prose so coagulated by indiscriminate introspection that it bogs down like the characters it describes...