Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capital punishment [April 2] is, in fact, a logical method of crime deterrence, then executions should be held in public and should be as grisly as possible. If it is a matter of revenge, then the nearest kin of the murder victim should be allowed to execute the murderer. If, on the other hand, executions are neither vindictive nor deterrent, then they are merely a way to save taxpayers the expense of supporting the cost of life imprisonment of a criminal...
...wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...first step was meeting the community. To do this--and they still use this method to break into a new area--the workers divided into pairs, chose a block, and went knocking on doors. "What's wrong with the neighborhood? What would you like to change?" they asked local people...
...December Ying perfected a method of determining the temperature distribution of vortexes. Since the flame wiggles, a simple thermometer was of no use, so Ying and Emmons swung a long tungsten live wire through the flame. In this way they obtained data which could be plugged into a computer program to give the temperature distribution. Ying discovered the highest temperature, 3200 degrees Farenheit, several inches from the center of the whirl...
...method was being taught to actors both in America and in Europe. But while stable repertory companies continued to develop in Europe, America's theatre world became ensnared in the wealth and glamor of Broadway and Hollywood. Producers in the legitimate theatre relied on big hits to make their killings, and film makers built their companies around big name stars...