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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 isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...ever kibitzing in his restless sleep. But Mazursky is scrupulously fair to the characters -- so fair that Enemies lacks his films' customary oomph. When it is not vitalized by the beautiful performances of Olin and Huston, the picture takes on Herman's dithering lassitude. And yet there is a method to this meandering. Novelist and director both know a man is more than the sum of the calamities that have befallen him. Herman is a victim, not just of the Nazis, but of his own demons as well. And he is lucky, or doomed, to find three superior women...
When Franklin Roosevelt set out to rescue capitalism from the Depression, he had little use for rigidly defined objectives. Improvisation corrected by feedback, that was Roosevelt's way. "The country needs bold, persistent experimentation," he declared. "Take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it and try another. But above all try something...
...technology that most fascinates visitors is a method for peering below the surface of a finished artwork and analyzing the various layers of paint it contains. The technique, computerized infrared reflectoscopy, is based on the fact that some pigments that reflect light in the visible range (like cadmium red) are more or less transparent to infrared light. By looking through these layers, art historians can catch glimpses of the artist's original handiwork: rough sketches, repaintings and the occasional erasure. Other techniques, notably X-ray analysis, had been used in the past. The major advantage of using a computer with...
...poet's alleged cruelty toward his wife, Hall, the poetry editor of Harvard Magazine, prefers to use the word "cowardly" when referring to Eliot's method of ending their marriage...