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Seventeen features pubescent models and a coy vocabulary. With a little effort, the magazine contends, any ugly duckling can end up with a "dream dress," a "dream complexion," a "dream date." In the language of the trade, Seventeen is a "how-to" magazine; it tells how to cook shish kebab, how to jazz up a bedroom, how to avoid going too far with a boy friend...
...they love to take Soc. Sci. 2, for it combines sociology and history into a rigorous but functional how-to manual. There the girls who address envelopes for the Young Democrats meet the boys who aspire to the Senate, and on rainy days the girls look more rained on than in other classes...
...Internship" Is In. Professional mobility is easier than it used to be, because most seminaries have reached a consensus on curriculum: plenty of theology and a minimum of how-to courses (although Chicago's famed Moody Bible Institute still offers a two-year "pre-aviation" course for flying missionaries). The trend now is to systematic theology, Biblical criticism, New and Old Testament languages-and to a study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There...
...essence of the code is conduct. Conduct, in Hemingway, is sometimes a question of how one behaves honorably toward another man or woman. More often, it is a question of how the good professional behaves within the rules of a game or the limits of a craft. All the how-to passages-how to land a fish, how to handle guns, how to work with a bull-have behind them the professional's pride of skill. But the code is never anchored to anything except itself; life becomes a game of doing things in a certain style...
...Motorola President Robert Calvin afraid of losing the U.S. lead in electronics. "The foreign competitor who has finally found out how to make a TV set will no longer find a market here, because we've already found out how-to hang one on a wall," says Galvin, whose sales are $260 million, best ever. Another sign that quality can be sold: Paris' George V Hotel stocks a claret that bears the label, "Beaulieu Vineyard, Napa Valley, Calif...