Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coalition government, Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi showed concern about the U.S. intervention at Suq al Gharb, while Christian Democratic Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti and Republican Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini supported it. In Paris, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson criticized the U.S. naval action, saying it was "not the best method" of solving the crisis. Added Cheysson: "If the Americans want to take the place of the Israelis, that is their responsibility, not ours." Three days later, however, after a barrage of rockets fell on French and Italian troops in Beirut, eight French Super Etendard fighters attacked Druze and Syrian...
This innovative method can be beautiful and intriguing, but the writer has used it at the expense of making a coherent, cohesive drama. What plot there is becomes hopelessly confused, as several separate strands of narration tangle themselves into terrible knots...
Though both Nesson and Miller are widely regarded as excellent on TV, their mere presence raises eyebrows, with some questioning the propriety of taking the Socratic method and their expertise out of Langdell Hall and into a commercial environment peopled by Phil Donahues. Although other professors take on consulting jobs, they do so in a less public manner than either Nesson or Miller. As the latter explains, "The cross I bear is that my work is so visible." And because their work is so visible, Nesson and Miller provide an opportunity for people to examine the possible benefits and drawbacks...
...Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. No society ever really depends for its survival on any individual, no matter how commanding or heroic. Marcos is in good health, but if he is unable to carry on, the 1973 constitution lays down an orderly method of succession...
DIED. Felix Bloch, 77, Swiss-born U.S. physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize with American Edward Purcell for the study of nuclear magnetic resonance, a method of measuring the frequencies of signals emitted by atomic nuclei under the influence of radio waves in an electromagnetic field; of a heart attack; in Zurich. NMR has revolutionized medical science as a diagnostic method without the ionizing radiation of CAT-scan X rays or painful injections of contrast material...