Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberties issue. This has been recognized by a number of groups who actively support the movement for freedom of sexual and affectional preference. Supporting groups include the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, the American Friends Service Committee and many churches. The ACLU has published a handbook outlining the rights of Gay people against archaic oppressive laws still existing in some states...
...someone seeking advice about what to do for an ache, for example, or who is secretly worried about occasional bowel bleeding or vague chest discomfort, the search through a standard handbook may produce more anxiety than the malady; the reader must hop from disease to disease until he finds one with symptoms that match his complaint. Symptoms adroitly solves that difficulty. It catalogues not only diseases but, in a separate section, their symptoms as well. Thus if the reader has, say, a swelling in his leg, he simply looks in the table of symptoms under the heading "Bones, Joints, Muscles...
While emphasizing the need to see a physician, given certain symptoms, the handbook also stresses that too much doctoring is as bad as too little: "If the disease is comparatively minor, and the symptoms are minor, it is better to try to get by without medication." Above all, it makes a strong pitch for physical fitness, endorsing everything from swimming to sex: "The body is far more likely to rust out than wear out; the more it is used the better it will function." The same might be said of Symptoms...
...prejudiced and superficial. Yet in becoming a better paper, it lost some of its raffishness and bracing cynicism, as well as those headlines that popped at you like bubble gum, all of which made the News the subway straphanger's bible and the cabby's handbook. Until now Murdoch has done little more than to add gossip and horse-racing tips to the Post, but, feeling the competition, the News is recapturing some of its own past liveliness, without sacrificing seriousness...
...Ives Goddard, formerly of Harvard and presently of the Smithsonian Institution, where he is linguistic editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, doesn't think highly of Barry Fell's word lists. Goddard, who is an authority on Algonquin languages, says Fell's work in that area is "full of errors of analysis and interpretation. He has trouble getting Indian words and their glosses right, he mixes languages together [a cardinal sin in comparative linguistics]...There is not even a vague inkling of enough resemblances to require an historical explanation...