Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There should be no job shortage for the volunteers of 1976. The Intercristo computer job-matching service offered 14,000 potential openings, mostly in the Third World, where opposition to missionary work in some areas is still intense. The new Mission Handbook, to be published by World Vision this month, reports that there are now an all-time high of 35,698 Protestant missionaries from the U.S. (v. 7,010 Roman Catholic ones), and that church members' annual giving to mission boards totals $633 million, a 60% jump in three years. Though several denominations such as the Episcopal, United...
...education system is failing, and was not afraid to offend the program's constituents, the college life task force preferred to duck the master problem altogether. Instead of addressing the fact that some masters are not performing their jobs adequately, the group simply asks that a new master's handbook be issued. Instead of trying to solve the problem of not being able to get or maintain top-flight masters, the report recommends that there be more coordination between...
...encounter daily, to make us realize how they matter and that we can and should keep them alive. Written to save the landmarks that mark the geography of American communities and their collective memories, the book is not a coffee-table volume of Historic Architecture glossies. It is a handbook, available in paperback, demonstrating how and why architecture is forgotten, showing in what ways the aesthetics of ordinary buildings matter, and outlining methods of preserving the structures that make only minor architectural statements, but create the mood of a living place...
...foundation also announced that David G. Mitten, Loeb Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, will compile a handbook of Greek and Roman bronze sculptures, and Cedric H. Whitman '38, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, will write a commentary on "the Iliad" during their tenure next year as fellows
...that the standard of literate English still goes back to Victorian English, and that people who haven't read Darwin, Ruskin, Dickens and Thackeray don't have quite the right idiom." To make sure that TIME stories have that idiom, Bachman wrote a 180-page style handbook that we rely on to protect our usage against what she labeled "substandard word fusions (someplace, noplace), folksy expressions (likely used for probably) and bureaucratese (implement used as a verb...