Word: methods
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...dealing with delinquents, of course, the difficulty of gaining their confidence is the fundamental stumbling block. Indeed, Slack is virtually the first to meet this problem successfully with a standard and easily communicable method. Court psychiatrists, for example, have been tragically unable to gain the cooperation of the worst delinquents. Slack believes conventional psycho-therapy fails because it insists on maintaining a doctor-patient relationship. Delinquents, he holds, refuse to acknowledge in any way that they might need "treatment," that there is any insufficiency in themselves. In fact, one special reformatory in New York which attempts psycho-therapy actually...
Where Honey falls short is where its method falls short-in a lack of intensifi cation and fusion. The play is episodic, without all the episodes being equally good; it is for the most part closeups, without all the characters being equally real (the mother is not always seen in focus and is played by Angela Lansbury too much for farce). But if there is a want of art to A Taste of Honey, there is equally a want of contrivance, and Joan Plowright's brilliant portrayal of the girl raises the play at its best from gifted...
...British used the cannon-muzzle method in putting down India's bloody Sepoy Mutiny...
...arms reduction would be an excellent beginning to solve world problems. The purpose of armaments and war is to decide an issue by force. The decision of course is rendered in favor of the disputant who has the greater force at his command. War is an emotional and expensive method for solving world problems, expensive not only in financial terms but also in rivers of human blood. War, now as always, has its purpose in human society--the battlefield is the final and supreme court in the international dispute. In the old days the battlefield was more or less confined...
There seems to be no easier method of praising an aspect of the "enemy" culture than to note that the book, play, or symphony under discussion is "above politics." And thus we have heard that the artistry of Wagner, Furtwangler, Prokofiev, or Shostakovich is above politics, even though we know how deeply the work of these men was influenced by their political environments...