Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impossible to miss Irving's message, but his method of conveying it is ingenious in the extreme. The tale begins in the 1880s, when Wilbur Larch graduates from Bowdoin College in Maine. As a present his father buys the young man a night with a Portland prostitute. Larch gains from this experience a sense of shame, a case of gonorrhea and the conviction that he can do very nicely without any more sex in the future. During his years at Harvard Medical School, Larch develops a fondness for sniffing ether and a knowledge of the appalling problems that unwanted pregnancies...
...work, some of the added costs could not legally be passed along to the Pentagon, and the company faced possible losses. To cut down on the red ink, GE managers decided to shift the overruns to different contracts under which the Government would pay the added costs. Their method: falsifying workers' time cards without their knowledge. Investigators are still trying to determine how many people were part of the plot and how high up into the company's management ranks they go. Joseph Calabria, a chief engineer on the Minuteman project who has been indicted but has pleaded not guilty...
...equally contentious front: tax reform. The President is preparing to unveil "Treasury II," a watered-down version of the Treasury Department's reform proposals of last November. The idea is to produce a simpler and fairer system while raising about the same amount of revenue. The method: eliminate many deductions and reduce overall tax rates. Reagan intends to give the latest reforms a big send-off with a national TV speech, just as he did, with mixed results, when he unveiled his budget...
Germany represented one of the furthest advances of the culture, yet the Third Reich profoundly perverted the entire heritage of Western achievement. It was as if Goethe had taken to eating human flesh. The scientific method, perfected over centuries, fell into the hands of Dr. Mengele and the engineers of the ovens. Hitler was not alone responsible. More than a few Germans enthusiastically followed him, saluted him and died for him. They seized the accumulated trust of 3,000 years and distilled it into unimaginable evil. They sought to extinguish not only Jews and gypsies and the rest...
...first comp piece to his adviser. Line by line, paragraph by paragraph, the writer is emasculated. The most one can hope for is a kind "This stinks," or some other system pathetic comment which does the job in one fell blow. Unfortunately, most compers are subjected to the slow method, slieing along word by word, phrase by phrase, with comments like "Oh, I don't know about this adjective," or "Have you ever really seen nuns wrestle...