Word: instructional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another plan is for the Government to preserve the privacy of its dependent contractors but give them new kinds of work. Supporters of the idea suggest that the U.S. should pick out one of its seemingly insoluble problems, such as air pollution or the lack of mass transportation, and instruct an aerospace company to attack it in the same fashion as the ten-year moon project. The company would take on the problem, separate its components, analyze ways to deal with them, project a schedule for solution and build some of the hardware. Says Assistant Secretary Harold Finger...
...film tries to step inside the allegory it sets up and give itself to a wide-eyed fascination with the workings of vice. Saura has learned from Bunuel, whom he openly imitates at times, how to use sensual indulgences to make an intellectual point. His method is to instruct by allowing participation- in a drowning fantasy, a hunting sequence, or in the grotesque rituals of over-acted sexuality...
...this was in a sense only an understandable reaction against the fact that too many vast demands are made on the family these days. Throughout most of Western history, until the 20th century, society as a whole strongly supported the family institution. It was the family's duty to instruct children in moral values, but it derived those values from church, from philosophers, from social traditions. Now most of these supports are weakened, or gone. Yet politicians and other prophets often blame the family for decline in morals and morale?as if the family could be separated from society...
...into three independent lobes. If one lobe detects an error not subsequently confirmed by its two partners, the outvoted lobe will also be dismissed. Later, it may be given another chance. But if it continues to disagree with its partners, they will perform an electronic lobotomy on it and instruct a replacement to do the job. Explains Avižienis: "The majority kicks out the minority, brainwashes a spare with what it knows, and then continues...
Exotic excursions into odd corners of cookery have some license to charm rather than instruct. But a working cookbook should be a textbook. It requires patient research, decent expository prose, and-on the publisher's part-painstaking work on editing and layout. Most cookbooks seem to aim solely for brevity. Beat the eggs with the sugar simply will not do unless it is followed by how long to beat and what the result should look or act like. No cookbook user is unfamiliar with that terse and truly enigmatic staple of mousse and souffle recipes: Fold in egg whites...