Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject matter was strictly from the Red handbook: miners, child laborers, peasants, and decadent rich folks sunning at Capri. But Guttuso managed to avoid the wooden lifelessness or shrill caricatures of his less talented comrades (see below). The hit of the show was The Dying Hero, an effectively gloomy oil of a man dying on a hospital bed. Although the central figure is realistically proletarian, Guttuso rose above the level of flat political posters with his geometric handling of pillow and sheets, skillfully done in shades of off-white against a violently contrasting red drapery...
...freshman, at first seeing the Colgate handbook, discovers that Konosioni taps its members on the basis of a point total. In the back of the handbook is a listing of the points awarded each particular activity. It is interesting to note that captains of the major sports share the top point award (10) with editors-in-chief of the weekly paper and the yearbook, plus the manager of football. Managers of the other major sports are on the next point rung down along with the editor-in-chief of the humor magazine, The Banter...
...repairmen who keep America's 27,150,511 television sets in tune, every call is a challenge to keep the client content and the repairman's honor bright. When special problems arise, solutions can be found in the TV Technician's Handbook on Customer Relations...
...handbook, compiled by Chicago's Central Television Service, Inc. (with the help of a psychologist) for its own and fellow TV technicians, has sold some 15,000 copies at $1 each. It assumes that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...
...author of a definitive book on southern politics and editor of a series of political science books. He is presently engaged in a study of voting behavior in the Northern and Mid-Western states. Interested in applying statistical methods to politics, he has recently prepared a handbook on statistical methods for political scientists...