Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Virtually waist deep in a field of 1,100 child violinists, cellists and pianists who were all taught by his learning-through-imitation method, Shinichi Suzuki waved his bow. Thousands of fingers tensed, and the second annual Chicagoland Suzuki Music Festival began on a note by Veracini (his Sonata in E Minor). Though hundreds of thousands of students have been taught by the Suzuki method since he introduced it more than three decades ago (including Rosalynn and Amy Carter, who took joint lessons in the White House), the 83-year-old master modestly professes to not playing as well...
Fisher is the co-author of "Getting to Yes," a book that sets the guidelines for his method of "principled negotiations...
...book, Fisher explains. "The method of principled negotiations is to decide the issues on their merits rather than through a haggling process focused in what each said says it will...
...Courbet looked very hard and had a method," Welliver remarks to the writer Edwin Denby in the catalogue. "Bierstadt did not look very hard and had a method, and de Kooning makes it up as he goes along ... I look very hard, then make it up as I go along." The idea of "sub lime" American landscape is fairly worn currency by now; there are too many generalized cliches of in stant grandeur attached to it. What saves Welliver's sense of awe at large scale is his sense of fact...
...Dukes of Hazzard when they are not? As for parents, many of the same symptoms apply. Adults, however, are far more apt than children to deceive themselves about their own TV compulsion. Like alcoholics, says Wilkins, adults hooked on TV tend to underestimate their dependency. Wilkins' method of kicking the habit is like the old-fashioned way of losing weight: eating less. The first step, as with overcoming any addiction, is mustering the will to do so. During the first week of her four-week program, she advises keeping a detailed daily schedule of all viewing. Says she: "Everyone...