Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original results of the Mather House student Assembly elections were reversed late Tuesday night after Stephen V.R. Winthrop '80, outgoing chairman of the assembly, asked members of the Mather House Committee to re-count the ballots using a different method of tabulation...
Winthrop said yesterxay he believed the House Committee's original tabulation method violated the assembly constitution by weighing some votes more heavily than others. One candidate, Daryl A. Libow '81, won an assembly seat in the original tabulation but was notified after thesrecount that he had actually, lost the election...
...important area of action for quiet diplomacy. I do not accept the contentions against such exchanges that have been expressed in the West. In some cases, this is practically the only realistic way to tear people out of the hell of the camps and prisons. Even if this method can help only a very few people, still, it is a breakthrough, and it assuredly does not harm those who remain behind...
...done the reverse. The characters are constricted by a trite, preconceived moral and soon become inanimate pawns in a pseudointellectual shell game. Quin tet is designed to stimulate superficial cocktail party chatter rather than to provoke an audience's hearts or minds. Altman has toyed with this method once before, in the disastrous denouement of the otherwise vivid 3 Women, but he has never let such pedantry overwhelm an entire movie. The results seem not only silly but insincere. For all the soppy lip service Altman pays to life, his film never attempts to arise from the slumber...
...cleared after 1 million years, leaving the transparent spangled space we see in the night sky now. The first million years are as concealed from us as God's face. There are many forms of knowing: science, experience, intuition, faith. Science proceeds on the theory that there is method in all mysteries, and that it is discoverable. It obeys, reasonably, what is called the "first law of wingwalking": "Never leave hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else." Faith, by definition, is a leap. It must await its verification in another...