Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Keenan says that the method of record keeping used by the graduate school makes an exact estimate of how well Harvard Ph.D.'s are faring in the job market impossible. Each department compiles its own study, and each uses its own criteria to determine what constitutes job placement. (In one department work as a bank officer or car salesman may be considered placement, in another only a teaching appointment at a certified college is counted as such.) Overall, 88 per cent of the 1976 graduating Harvard Ph.D. s found jobs, a figure which is next to meaningless because...
...Chile's experience is less significant because of Pinochet's bloodthirstiness than it is because of the nature of the government that preceded it, and the method in which that government was overthrown. Allende was elected by a popular vote on a platform calling for a peaceful transition to socialism. During its three years in power, the Popular Unity government--a coalition of Chile's leftwing groups--nationalized the country's coppper mines, gave the land of absentee landowners to the farmers who worked it, and took the first steps toward enforcing a more equitable distribution of income...
...Spencer Haywood, who left his home town of Silver City, Miss., at age 14 because there wasn't enough money to feed the ten kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court. At a session at a local playground, Haywood paused between games to hear his young players talk about their problems. He also passed out advice, urging his listeners...
This psychological approach drew some critical fire as the five volumes on James appeared, but it fascinates his Dartmouth students. "I don't go overboard about biography, so to speak, but I think Edel's psychological method offers interesting insights," says Senior Peter Tagge. An ardent sailor, Tagge is writing for his course project a profile of round-the-world Sailor Robin Knox-Johnston. Diane Kilpatrick, a psychologist at Dartmouth's student health center, was also drawn by Edel's analytic method. When Edel proved at the first session to be "a fascinating storyteller," she juggled...
...another like Tinker to Evers to Chance, and talk endlessly above a shifting kaleidoscope of film, whose relevance is not always explained. Looking at the new ABC Evening News these days, one is suddenly reminded that Roone Arledge also invented Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell. And then his method comes clearer. Arledge is a master of sensory overload...