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Hoadley's modus operandi, distasteful in itself, has already had its unhappy effects. None of the three defendants will return to school this term. Their parents have suffered economic reprisals and one friends was evicted from an apartment...
...dollars spent on national radio and television ratings, knew it was the committee's prime target, and its executives came to the hearings armed with a vanload of statistical charts. But the committeemen were not to be diverted by the long-winded, jargonized explanations of the Nielsen modus operandi. "You gentlemen amuse me," California Republican J. Arthur Younger told the Nielsen men. "I have never yet seen anything that sells confusion before like you people...
Dean Monro told the committee that "power at Harvard lies in a sensible idea, clearly expressed, with good manners." Aside from its own merits (which are many) this statement automatically defines the effective modus operandi for any legislative body, since the deans do have a good deal to say about how much power any undergraduate organization can have...
...Choice is valuable from this point of view. It evades with fair consistency the pitfalls of crisis-ridden thinking, the temptation to search for panaceas or slogans. It calls on intellectuals and policy-makers alike to gear their thinking to the least optimistic assumptions, and attempt the best modus operandi from there. It is for just this reason that some of the contradictions and evasions are so disturbing. Those passages which betray the same irrationality that pervades most American thinking about foreign policy in the nuclear age are likely to undermine the rest of the work...
After talking with one of your reporters over the phone recently, it occurred to me that it was about time that someone set down the facts regarding the Band's traditional musical effort and what lies behind it. Since the Band's "modus operandi" has always been unique among large college bands, it has been frequently misunderstood...