Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article by R. P. and V.R. Charrow, "Making Legal Language Understandable," describes a reliable method for lawyers and bureaucrats to improve comprehension of legislative language by non-lawyers...
...Jakob's fellow Germans, Heinrich Hertz, Hermann von Helmholtz, Max Planck and that disturbing chap, Albert Einstein, who, to Jakob's everlasting distress, fused physics with mathematics and introduced a radically new way of seeing and thinking. It is a way that will provide humanity with a method of destroying that most complex and fragile construction, humanity. Finally, there is Paul Drude, Jakob's mentor and advocate of harmony in both life and physics, whose suicide unsettles his disciple and turns his mind toward ever enlarging thoughts of personal and global extinction...
...heart attack; in New York City. Over five decades, the Polish-born Strasberg, a discerning but caustic pedagogue, helped shape such future stars as Dustin Hoffman, Jane Fonda, John Garfield, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Eli Wallach, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Strasberg's technique, the so-called Method, was inspired by a system developed by the Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky. Through the use of physical and emotional exercises, Strasberg taught his pupils to forgo external acting tricks and "internalize" roles, drawing on reservoirs of their own experience and feeling. Strasberg's disciples called him "Rabbi," "Pope...
...Prentice Women's Hospital, in Chicago, twelve couples are learning a procedure called effleurage, part of the Lamaze method of "prepared" child delivery. Husbands stroke the swollen stomachs of their wives, who pant, groan and breathe deeply. The average age of the students: early 30s. Even the 35-year-old instructor is expecting her first child...
Expectant mothers in New York "shop" among traditional hospital delivery rooms, "birthing suites" and house-call midwives to find the method that best suits their attitudes. While most obstetricians welcome their well-prepared new patients, some think the fertile fringe has gone too far. Says Dr. Melchior Savarese, an obstetrician at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.: This group of women comes into my office with lists of questions. 'Am I going to have an I.V., an external monitor, an enema?' They set down guidelines. It causes minor confrontations. They're overly prepared." Says William Simon, professor of sociology...