Word: methodism
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Birth control is another area where the Soviets are lagging. The government's ideal family has three children, but couples are forced to use the unreliable rhythm method or coitus interruptus, with abortion as a backup. According to Dr. Knaus, Soviet men do not like condoms, diaphragms come in only one size, and the pill (which is just beginning to be manufactured within the U.S.S.R.) is regarded with skepticism and fear. Intrauterine devices are popular but in short supply. The result: in 1980 Soviet doctors performed an estimated 16 million abortions. Says Dr. Knaus: "The average woman...
...Socialist Realism is the only method of our art," wrote one of the surviving hacks in 1954. "Any other method is a concession to bourgeois ideology. In our country, where socialism has been victorious, where there has arisen a moral and political unity of the people unprecedented in the history of mankind, there is no special basis for different directions in art." Thus the lid clamped down, and it has remained down ever since, condensing the bland, dull, obsequious and piously idealistic nature of official "realism...
Scott's classroom may be decorated with pictures of spaceships, but she is an oldfashioned, demanding teacher. Her classroom method is a blend of love, dignity, discipline and self-confidence rooted in unshakable dedication to children. Says she: "I don't care what a child looks like, or what he smells like. He has a personal worth that God gave him, and that should be counted...
Only Britain and Ireland are out of step with the European method of filling the ranks. The British inducted their last draftee into the army in 1960. Since then sign have been relying entirely on volunteers, who have to sign up for twelve years although a minimum of only three years need be on active duty...
...does remember, few women student residents are aware of this service, primarily because women's advisers are not labeled as such. Fox says he does it this way because he prefers to "handle it (sexual harassment and women's issues) in inexplicit ways." Fox says he favors an informal method because it is "more inclined to do something more low-key, but more available...