Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a method in Mamet's modishness. Edmond harbors horrified inner fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned...
...accordance with a City council resolution passed last month. Cambridge Water Department officials notified Harvard Wednesday that water would be shut off yesterday. But Harvard officials delayed notifying House residents until early Thursday morning, said Harvard Spokesman Peter Clancey. While efforts were made to find an alternative method of installation...
...reduce costs, Xerox managers use a technique called "competitive benchmarking." That means looking carefully at the lowest-priced competing copier, determining exactly how it is being produced for less, and making the Xerox product in a similar way. The method seems to be working. The 10 series costs between 40% and 50% less to produce than earlier machines...
...electron microscope. If they are subjected to extra-long exposures in the electron beams or are stained to improve contrast, their structure becomes distorted. Klug overcame this major obstacle by manipulating the images mathematically with the help of a computer. Among the viral structures discovered by his new method was that of a common plant blight: the tobacco mosaic virus, a tiny rod-shaped particle consisting of a single-stranded coil of RNA surrounded by a cover of protein that resembles a stack of discs...
...recollecting his encounter with a woman who resides in Hanover, N. H., after having communicated with her through Xcalibur, Kay says that this "fun" method of communication is "quite different from the real world." Kay spotted his "computer-pal" as he walked by her terminal and by chance saw the typing pattern that corresponds to the pattern that he had been receiving at his terminal...