Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times are ancient, or older. Golding's method, as in The Inheritors, is simply to ask himself what it could have been like in those dim times and then to imagine an answer. He conjures baking sun, heat, a river, flat, dry beds of papyrus, stillness; then buildings, a mud town, a tiny, isolated river kingdom at the moment when the old god-king dies and the succession must be established. Mating in the royal line is incestuous, and while there is a suit able princess, her brother is a sickly and unpromising ten-year...
...garden for the ghetto it was, but its jungle-like desolation now excludes all habitation except by the memories of those De Sica has brought to life and led to death. Like Micol's breasts seen through the wet veil of her drenched tennis shirt, De Sica's method is one of powerful suggestiveness. A tennis court is a concentration camp is a playground for whatever mental visions the director's varying ideas project onto the screens of his audience's mind...
...composition of this group, the fact that so many people have refused to serve, the reasons for their refusals, the method by which the nominations, elections and arrangement have been handled all raise severe doubts about my ability to receive a fair and impartial hearing. I think that if you as a faculty have any pretense to due process and fairness you will review this entire situation and come to the same conclusion. (May I add another consideration: if the hearing I receive from the GSD is not a just one--and I refer not to the final decision reached...
Three more Harvard courses reported stolen papers yesterday--Linguistics 102, "Linguistics in Anthropology," Linguistics 201, "Philological Techniques," and Linguistics 210, "Theory and Method of Linguistics"--bringing to eight the number of classes reporting missing termpapers
...knows just how many patients die each year of hepatic coma, but they certainly number in the thousands. Those whose livers have not been irreparably damaged could probably benefit from the Abouna method, which, unlike some other exotic procedures, does not involve long waits or inordinate costs. While baboons are not as plentiful as alley cats, they are being raised in several U.S. primate colonies, and as they only cost about $250 apiece, they are relatively inexpensive animals...