Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intensive, interactive approach to language instruction may have begun at Dartmouth College. Although Dartmouth does not offer specific courses labelled "intense," according to John A. Rassias, a professor of French at the college, professors there "have a method in which there is full participation every minute of the hour...
...There is a high level of energy as students are asked questions rapidly in succession, and the attention level is extraordinary," he explains, adding that his Rassias Method is now used at more than 200 colleges nationwide...
Maass says he will celebrate the end of his 36-year Harvard teaching career by buying a few hundred acres of barren California desert and trying to turn the plot into a workable farm, using a new irrigation method he developed. And Maass will be doing more than just homesteading. He plans to conduct two research projects, advise a small number of seniors on their theses, and find time for a season ticket to the Boston Symphony...
...later career. He was my tutor, Francis Wayne MacVeagh. Although he never gained the fame of such contemporaries as Robert Hillyer and Theodore Spencer, he guided me to a true and lasting love of fine writing and he did it by the casual and then unconventional method of simply spreading a dozen or more books in front of me, saying. "Take them along, read any that interest you and ignore the rest. "From Francis learned to love oddities like Tristram Shandy's My Uncle Toby and to enjoy the wit and wisdom of Henry Fowler's Modern English Usage...
...Lost Ark) and assembled for a bargain-basement $1.3 million. (By contrast, Carlo Rambaldi's E.T. creature alone cost $1.5 million.) The greenish-brown monsters, standing 23 in. tall with their 10-in. bat ears, were controlled by hands, cables, rods, radio signals and a simple but effective method that Walas describes as "throw-'em-across-the-room puppetry." The most complicated gremlin had 60 cables operated by a dozen technicians standing 8 ft. to 10 ft. away; "super-faces" were designed for Gizmo and his gremlin archrival Stripe, with some 36 cables that controlled character movement...