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...been abandoned, as Beavis and Butt-head indicate proudly: "Words suck...If I wanted to read, I'd go to school." In the pursuit of freedom, the academy becomes the enemy. Unfortunately, in the process, so do all things intellectual. After all, what use is learning when the enforced method of instruction is laden with cultural prejudices while denouncing the very notion of prejudice...
...different type of method to establish aconstructive Jewish identity is a valid one,"Dauber said. "As a pluralistic institution, Hillelsupports all such attempts...
...blood test to detect prostate cancer in its very earliest stages works far better than old-fashioned, unpleasant rectal examinations. In a recent study the newer method, called a prostate-specific antigen test, detected almost twice as many tumors as a manual exam...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the Overpowering Assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the Vague Generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it wasn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...loves Bobby for his mind. "It must be so exciting," she coos. "You have all the right answers before anybody else even has the questions!" Bobby loves Marilyn for her . . . mind too: "How as an actor can you get inside someone's mind? I read somewhere it's called Method acting. What is that?" Any complications to this storybook romance -- Bobby's wife and kids, for example -- are kept safely offstage...