Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quantitative method of cliometrics (from Clio, the muse of history) has demonstrated ways in which computers can define trends and correct the errors of historical preconception. For years historians have spoken of the Civil War as the nation's economic breaking point, the moment when, as Charles and Mary Beard argued 50 years ago, the urban industrial North seized power from the agrarian South in a "second American revolution." Through cliometrics, says the University of Pittsburgh's Samuel Hays, historians have analyzed such production figures as railroad mileage and steel output, and found that the "takeoff points" occurred...
...results are heavily edited and often rewritten. Even the most impenetrable subjects are usually discussed in clear, conversational prose, and every specialized term from a margin call to a baseball batting average is explained for the uninitiated. Says Lewis H. Young, editor in chief of Business Week: "Their method is to have a good editor working with a good reporter asking fundamental questions: 'What does this story mean?' 'How does it fit in?' That's why they get the emphasis, the importance, the significance right...
...mind again after a long hiatus because the law now requires me and four million men my age to register in just a few weeks. I do not object to a meaningful commitment to one's nation; what bothers me is the blatantly political evolution of this particular method for showing patriotic devotion...
...handed backhand seems part of the tennis landscape now that Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert and Tracy Austin have made it respectable. But when Borg first came to public notice, no one had used the shot since Australian Vivian McGrath in the 1930s. Needless to say, Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste was outfoxing stronger foes in the 1920s. All the elements were there...
While he was making up matches, Borg was also making up a method of playing tennis. With no coach to help him, he gripped the racquet?a heavy model meant...