Word: handbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...help women with re-entry problems, several books have recently appeared with titles such as Have You Had It in the Kitchen? (Grosset & Dunlap) and The Back to Work Handbook for Housewives (Collier Books). This spring Simon & Schuster will publish one with a title that tells it all: How to Go to Work When Your Husband Is Against It, Your Children Aren't Old Enough and There's Nothing You Can Do Anyhow...
...York Review of Books. Coles points out that Agee's reverence in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is for the poor white farmers that the 60's Civil Rights Workers mentality found so hateable, for all their hates and fears. Effectively, Let Us Now Praise is a handbook in counteraction of the 60's self-righteousness. Of all the respects to Agee, this is the most compelling...
...sense, Ginzburg was a man ahead of the legal times. Eros, his slick, expensively produced "quarterly on the joys of love," was mildly startling in the early '60s, as was its companion biweekly "newsletter of love," Liaison, and a mail-order volume called The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. The most controversial display in Eros, for example, was a series of color pictures of a black man and a white woman embracing in the nude. The post office, after receiving 35,000 complaints, charged Ginzburg with violating an 1872 law prohibiting the mailing of obscene material...
...withdrawn from the bank-long enough to prevent an already pregnant woman from using artificial insemination as a cover-up for an illegitimate baby. That waiting period does not apply, however, to a man who wishes his sperm destroyed: that can be done immediately, the Depositor's Handbook guarantees. The same swift fate awaits the ejaculate of a man who fails to keep up his support payments; in Manhattan those payments amount to $18 a year, after the initial deposit...
...expression of sex. Enjoy it." If a person wants to be homosexual or bisexual, that's his business. Pornography is harmless. Gordon's only caveats are against sex that is "exploitive" or unprotected by contraception. Like the sex comic, Who Will Drug You? A Survivor's Handbook avoids moralizing. But it must be doubly instructive for youngsters to learn graphically the various symptoms of overdose victims who are having convulsions or just staggering, "confused and slow." And to learn that holding a joint of grass can get you 50 years in Texas...