Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest the public think that the racketeers are mellowing, the crime commission warned: "In whatever activity organized crime engages, legitimate or illicit, its method of operation is the same-the maintenance of a monopoly through extortion and violence or imposing the fear of violence." Added Commission Vice Chairman Daniel Walker: "They only get their money by dealing with the public, and the public can shut off their source of funds...
...training, technique and performance by rote from recordings, and later to such refinements as note reading. While the course is designed only for a musician's formative years, at least 100 of Japan's professional violinists have come out of the Suzuki school. So successful is his method that the New England Conservatory, the Eastman School and the Oberlin College Conservatory have started Suzuki-type programs...
...adoption of activism as the method of petitioning for change separates the new activist from traditional campus politicos, who would instead petition through the established student representative body, like Harvard's Undergraduate Council...
...chairman Henry Norr is willing to give it a try, but he and other members have reservations about this method of administration-student communication. Asked one, "Are we just going to sit around and keep knocking on the administration's door? I hope not, because if we do, they'll just keep listening to us and never open it up." There is talk about setting up a student group to study educational policy independent of the administration. The group would try to build student activism around its proposals...
Author Epstein, whose 1964 book Leah was a controlled whisper of a novel, is one of those rarities in American letters-the completely rounded writer, capable of handling the counterpoint that this theme necessitates. If his method is kitchen realism (down to the whirring refrigerator), his manner is as fine as the tinkle of dining room crystal. He does not try to bomb the reader out of his mind, nor is he out to revolutionize his conscience. Rather, he tells a story with grace and wit, taking the common-or universal-experiences of life as the basis for a work...