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Expert opinion on child rearing is no less subject to fashion than the length of hemlines. Witness the advice given to parents by Psychologist John B. Watson in his influential 1928 handbook Psychological Care of Infant and Child: "Never hug and kiss them, never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning...
...rushed over to Widener to find out more about this distant land called Cabot House. I looked it up in the Harvard handbook. It said "see South House." So I looked up South House. It said "now known as Cabot House." Then I looked up gullible. Next to the definition was a picture of me. Then I looked up Boston suburbs. I glanced past Waltham, Peabody, Danvers, and Swampscott until I came across Cabot House. I learned that shuttles leave for Cabot House every time there is an eclipse of the sun. So I ran over to Crimson Travel...
...Idiot-Savant Handbook, by Ronald Patrick MacMurphy. In a few short pages (and huge bold type) the author explains how to remember what the weather was like every day for the last 100 years. My favorite, page 14: "May 27, 1932: It was cloudy." The book also explains how to remember what day of the week it was for every day of the last 500 years. For example, November 20, 1965 was a Saturday. The epilogue also tells you how to get on "60 Minutes" after memorizing the book...
...official statement to Harvard alumniin the overseers voter handbook, Gore's positionis less explicit...
...might be called a boycott handbook. The Council on Economic Priorities, a liberal research organization based in New York City, has put out an unusual 500-page tome titled Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Addison-Wesley; $14.95). It grades 130 major companies according to such "social" criteria as hiring minorities and avoiding investments in South Africa...