Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article on handwriting [March 21] reminded me of my grammar school days, when the Palmer method was introduced. I refused to do the exercises, claiming that we should not all write alike, an opinion I still hold. As a result of my steadfastness, I spent most of my time in the principal's office...
After lunch, Portman goes to his section of Public Management taught by Professor Mark Moore, a prominent scholar on criminal law. In it, Moore uses the case study method, employed in several K-School courses, where professors impart general theories by discussing specific policy examples. Today's case involves former New York Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman and the techniques she used to staff her new office as Brooklyn. District Attorney. By calling on students for answers, Moore focuses the discussion on the role of the district attorney in enforcing the law. Students are prepared for the rapid-fire questioning...
...Supreme Court adopted the exclusionary rule, a controversial method of enforcing the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unlawful searches and seizures. Now, years later, our Supreme Court has elected to examine the rule and possibly join a "good-faith exception" to it. One wonders whether the drafters of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights intended that our constitutional protections be diminished whenever a majority of a particular Supreme Court disagrees with the philosophy of, and necessity for, the safeguards...
...whirlwind for the Reds in the '70s, Morgan believes modestly that he will be Rose's edge this year. "Pete will want to prove to Joe Morgan he can still play, just as I want to show Pete Rose I can still play." Their clubhouse method of staying loose is to ridicule each other and everyone else fondly, but often mercilessly. How this will play in Philadelphia, where feelings are fragile, should be interesting. "When you kid around," says Perez, who supplies the perspective, as usual, "you become a friend, not just a teammate...
...lovers in Frank Borzage's Moonrise or Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night. Like the greasers, The Outsiders often seems to be busily, handsomely going nowhere. Coppola, however, is generous with his fine young actors (excepting Dillon, whose coltish charm is fast becoming a festival of Method mannerisms). It is easy to sense Coppola's identification with these boys, and with the feeling of going it alone against all odds that has made this protean writer-director-producer Hollywood's most famous and flamboyant outsider. -By Richard Corliss