Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Schoenberg's dissonances have long since become the common currency of 20th century music. No other composer of his time except Stravinsky has proved as influential, and even Stravinsky came around at the end of his life to his rival's method of composition. Yet today, nearly 30 years after Schoenberg's death, the question of what ordinary concertgoers will think of him remains unsettled. The music, like the man, is complex, uncompromising, obstinately single-minded in its innovative rigor. Audiences have felt, as many critics have, that Schoenberg put truth before beauty. They have often found...
...situation is familiar: a new boy in a tough school makes a couple of social blunders and finds himself the target of a bullying gang's wrath. But the method that undersized Clifford (Chris Makepeace) uses to solve his problem is novel. He persuades Linderman (Adam Baldwin), the biggest lad in his class, and one wrapped in a menacing silence, to act as his bodyguard. In the course of their nicely developed relationship, Clifford discovers that his new friend's silence is motivated by a dark but not dingy secret, which understanding can cure. By the time...
...sort of bureaucratic nonsense that drives U.S. businessmen wild and costs the consumer uncounted millions each year. Because of an act of Congress that became effective last year, banks belonging to the Federal Reserve system were required to explain to their customers the intricacies and protections built into the method of paying bills and making other money transfers by means of electronic banking...
...Dropping the longstanding ban on physician advertising, a move ordered by the Federal Trade Commission. The old phrase directing doctors "not [to] solicit patients" was eliminated. So was the injunction against associating professionally with anyone who does not practice a "method of healing founded on a scientific basis." That leaves physicians free to refer patients to, as well as receive patients from, chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, even faith healers. Says Todd: "Chiropractors are licensed in 50 states. We may not like them, but they are there...
With eight children to support, Lionel and Joline Thiboutot could scarcely afford the reduction in federal welfare benefits required under Maine's new method of computing such payments. When their initial protests failed, the couple turned to the courts, and last week the Supreme Court ruled that Maine must pay them their benefits. In their 6-to-3 decision, the Justices broke new legal ground: they held that states can be sued under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 for violating a citizen's rights created under any federal statutes...