Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...follow, in certain ways closed to the stage actor, the approach to acting developed by Stanislavsky. The screen actor can concentrate on developing his acting image, without worrying about the stage problem that editing of camera sequences eliminates. (It is interesting to note that a frequent complaint about American Method actors is that they act on stage as if they were performing before a camera: that is, they mumble in a way inaudible to the back rows. I don't think this is a fault more common among Method actors than any others, but if the complaint is valid there...
...bends down to it or sits. A broom or brush with a long handle, which can be used while a person is standing, is far more effective and less tiring. All over the world these standing brooms are used. Why then do we carry on with a primitive method which is inefficient and psychologically wrong? Bending down to sweep in this way encourages subservience in mind...
...enemy. "There are still governments in the Americas," he added, "that advise us to lick the hand that wants to hit us. We cannot join in a continental alliance with our great enslaver." He urged all Latin American governments to send supporters of dictatorship "to the wall," a method of dealing with opponents that is very familiar...
Financed by a Ford Foundation grant, Peabody has tried out the computer on five school systems in the past year. It will soon publish instructions for any U.S. school that cares to try the method. "Without a computer." says Peabody's Professor Curtis Ramsey, "this work would take so long that results would be of historical significance only...
What most readers of Darvas' book fail to realize is that the stop-loss order method must be used, as Darvas does, with the skill of a professional trader; it is not for amateurs. To stop the sudden swings, the floor governors of the exchange are closely watching 13 stocks with an unusual volume of stop-loss orders, have held several meetings to discuss the problems presented by the "Darvas Effect...