Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knowledge is being advanced, he will have a new and exciting experience. Unless he is a recluse this new experience will be passed on to a circle of friends. Even in the first year of college the intellectual interests of a group of students are most diverse, and our method of education continues to intensify this diverslfication. The specialization of each individual does not necessarily sabotage the ideal of a liberal arts college. If the proper conditions exist for student life, the interplay of divergent viewpoints makes for the most liberal and stimulating atmosphere possible...
...this "skeleton" technique which contrasts with the 1916-17 method, often described as "green officers for green men." At the time only a few officers to each regiment had had previous training, and they selected as junior officers likely-looking candidates from among the recruits. The results was slow and misnecessful training, contranting unfavorably with the results expected from the "skeleton" system...
...eight years U. S. voters have been periodically asked what they think of Business management. But Business management has never had any mechanism through which all its leaders could regularly record their opinion each month on the U. S., present and future. This week FORTUNE, pioneer in the sampling method of learning what the U. S. thinks, announced it had created such a mechanism, published its first installment of executive opinion...
With this view Ernest Simmons, onetime Harvard professor and biographer (1937) of Byronic Poet Alexander Pushkin, has little patience. Simmons denies the widespread notion that Siberian exile altered the thought and method of "one of the most original novelists in world literature." Dostoevski's originality combined 1) his distrust for Western European culture; 2) his belief in feeling against reason; 3) his expert, unprecedented child psychology; 4) his caustic satire, especially of radicals in The Possessed; 5) his great character types-the Meek, the Double, the Self-Willed...
Continually, in all his life's work, Thomas Mann has interested himself in the study of the artist, the superior man, the genius. Usually his method has been elaborately symbolic; in The Beloved Returns it is direct. On the scale of such colossal fables as Joseph and The Magic Mountain this new novel must be classified as "minor"; and, relative to their all-but-unfathomable subtleties, it might seem almost transparent. But it is by no means minor, by no means so straight-edged as it looks. To the readers whom it will bring to the edge of their...