Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Modernism is particularly clear. For architecture is the social art: one looks at a painting or sculpture, but people live and work in buildings. It is the most expensive art of all and therefore the slowest to change; for once clients are used to a particular look, a standard method of construction and a conventional system of status-conferring clues, it is hard to wean any but the most adventurous away from them. Architecture is also the most visible of all arts. Buildings shape the environment; painting and sculpture only adorn it. All this has meant that though architecture changes...
Judgment on McLaughlin's method has to be reserved until later in the season, when Harvard plays its Ivy League schedule. This year's team, though young, has talent and should do well. They need McLaughlin to boost their spirits now while the going's tough...
...most important story of the week was that on tax shelters [Dec. 4]. I would guess that most of us think of them as a way for old folks on deflated incomes to buy municipal bonds and save a few tax dollars. Now it appears that it is a method for conniving lawyers and those with know-how to reap undeserved profits while depriving the rest of us of revenue that should have been used for our monumental governmental deficits...
...work will not do." During a conference not long ago, when Hua expounded Mao's philosophy, Teng retorted, "There are those who, day in and day out, talk of nothing but Mao Tse-tung's thought while failing to grasp even its most fundamental elements: practical experience, the empirical method and the combination of theory with practice...
Even while this new method is being developed to treat kidney disease, thousands of Americans may be unwittingly bringing it upon themselves. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Thomas Murray and Martin Goldberg of Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Hospital report that as many as 5% of all instances of kidney failure in the U.S.-some 8,000 new cases a year-may be caused by common over-the-counter and prescription analgesics. The usual culprit: a mixture of aspirin and either phenacetin or acetaminophen, ingredients found in many well-known painkillers as well...