Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...work of Clark University's James Franklin Beard, whose 15-year trail took him from the archives of Warsaw to New England bookstores (in one of which he found a Cooper fragment addressed to an Ojibway Indian). The nonscholar is advised to read by the strip-mining method of ignoring the gritty substratum of footnotes, which run as high as 28 for one letter, and following two thin but constant veins of comic paydirt...
Find a Motive. Subjective or not, the Ivy League schools were far from easy on themselves in last week's choices. Using a typical method, Columbia's Dean of Undergraduate Admissions David Dudley lined up 3,000 applications for 670 places. His staff first ranked each boy on the sole basis of two aptitude scores. Some were clearly admissible on this basis, some not. The problem: 800 middle-group applicants for 400 places. From then on, intangibles were vital. The chief gauge: "Finding the kid who looks stronger on incentive, who has a real motive." Recalls Dudley...
...members agreed that he might have a point, then got on to other business. Said Lewis later: "I'm not mad at anyone. I simply feel the kids are not learning the mechanics of spelling. But I know you can't budge a school system and a method of teaching...
...aggravating the crisis of the Two Cultures-what he regards as the monstrous gap between the "scientific culture" and the "traditional culture" led by "literary intellectuals." Snow feels that this gap (greater in Britain than in the U.S., where intellectuals tend to believe, sometimes too blindly, in the scientific method) threatens the West with a loss of practical strength and cultural creativity...
...marble landings, its wheeling pigeons under a volley of church bells. Pasinetti was born in his setting, is now a professor of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote his novel in Italian and then translated it into English on a tape recorder, a method that gives the book a convincing, though sometimes too pronounced, foreign accent...