Word: methods
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...good example of the method of the novel is the death of a young woman possessed by a spirit. Genji has taken her away to a dismal old house, hoping to be far from the public eye. They sleep, and he dreams of one of his jealous mistresses. Then he wakes and sees the spirit of this other woman at his new partner's pillow. He is terrified, and with good reason, because his new partner is dead. What kind of magic is this? The jealous mistress is still alive, and doesn't at this stage even know...
...have often heard it said that the wackiness of Harvard liberals makes rational students on this campus more conservative when they leave than they were when they got here. MacKenzie’s ridiculous assertions that it is better to be sucked into a vacuum (the abortion method he cites to defend the humaneness of the procedure) than to be born into a non-ideal situation certainly serves to make many moderate and rational students rethink whether they want to be associated with such “pro-choice” radicals. The same is true for his assertion that...
...torture would be acceptable to force information from a prisoner where there is “very good evidence” that the prisoner has information that would save innocent lives and refuses to give it. Although he stated that he was not advocating torture, Dershowitz suggested a clinical method of torture using sterilized hypodermic needles to be inserted under the recalcitrant’s fingernails, which he and the interviewer agreed would be excruciating...
Demonstrating his constitutional expertise, Dershowitz said that a judge’s authorization would be needed for a specified method of torture—a mere police official could not authorize torture. Dershowitz reached into his knowledge of our collective subconscious and explained that everybody wants torture to be used in such circumstances and would be glad that torture saved innocent lives. He stated that torture is used in such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have...
...point, as Morris was addressing his writing method, his wife Sylvia spoke about how a photo of Abraham Lincoln’s funeral had inspired her own biography of Roosevelt’s second wife...