Word: methods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...control in the other, there's yet a third way to take your audience for a ride. Here the subject and the object are long gone, so that while the pretense of naturalism exits the needlessness of thinking critically about real people in real life lingers on. This method is the Trip. Though hypothetically borrowed from LSD culture, the Trip has little to do with subliminal imagery or altered consciousness--it's a distorted mirrors routine, psychedelic feelings, as though emotions come in bright colors and relationships make loud noises. There's no time except to react, Nothing...
...three of whom are associated with the group in whose field the lectureship falls that year, and one from the other group, are chosen from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The fifth member of the committee must come from out of state. Apparently, this was Stillman's unusual method of assuring that the appointment would be a man "of international reputation." To make doubly sure that the Chair would attract the most eminent scholars of the world, the bequest states that the Norton professor be given "the maximum salary of a full professor in the Faculty of Arts...
...mile range and a 500 kiloton warhead. At the time the SALT I negotiations were about to start, and an examination of the Serb warheads would have given U.S. experts an invaluable insight into the state of Soviet nuclear technology. They could have learned about the reliability, accuracy and method of triggering the nuclear matter of Soviet missiles. They could have compared their earlier evaluations based on satellite data against the real thing. Hence U.S. negotiators could have entered the SALT talks with the advantage of having a clearer understanding of Soviet nuclear strength...
...then in literature. Verne went on to science fiction; Herzl went on to Palestine. That bizarre journey has all the qualities of fin-de-siècle romance. It might have been told as a novel, a pageant-even as psychohistory. Instead, Israeli Journalist Amos Elon has chosen a method of slow accretion, scrupulously piling up dates and incidents, scarcely daring to speculate or interpret. The style is out of keeping with its subject. But Herzl is too powerful, too messianic to be quelled by mere facts. On the manuscript, the man is his own illumination...
...yield. His is a Buster Keaton, deadpan humor that shrivels in the explaining. Mercier and Camier is as hilarious, in gasps, as anything he has written. The novel's coolly mannered prose disguises outrageous statements until the instant they land. There is also cruelty in Beckett's method (Mercier is comforted briefly by the sight of a dead and bleeding wom an) and surprising moments of compassion. When Mercier and Camier part, they lose the small comforts of their mutual buffoonery - supporting hands and shoulders, conversational noise, animal warmth. That loss, as the book ends, is no laughing...