Word: manual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe is drunk with the same poison!" Up stepped Gamesman Potter to tweak Uncle Sam's nose amidst general merriment. He quoted from a manual for U.S. cemetery-plot salesmen: "It's better to have a plot and no need for it than to need it and not have one." He sneered at a claim of California winegrowers that they have never had a poor vintage year. He declaimed: "The selling...
Manners & Mechanics. To round off the embryo elite, there are afternoon lessons in music (all instruments), good manners and ballroom dancing, along with projects in radio, photography and chemistry. Manual training is mandatory, and older children will soon work part time in nearby factories to learn a trade. Each child must also learn to drive a car-and repair it. Every Friday comes "hygiene day," when all must pass personal inspection of clothes and quarters, and each dormitory also has a logbook for daily lapses: "Dust on the window ledge," or "Lint under Kolya's cot." The students...
...nearing the rocking-chair age, but the ruddy, grey-haired businessman averages five trips abroad each year, traveling 100,000 miles. Says he: "You can't learn about world conditions sitting on the banks of the Miami River in Dayton." What Allyn has learned amounts to a field manual for U.S. businessmen...
...intimacy with nature. The Japanese garden is nature in the raw, scaled down but retaining its own asymmetrical harmony. The Japanese goal is not decoration or domination but communion, to experience the rockness of a rock or the treeness of a tree. A second quality- is seemingly innate manual dexterity. As Author Maraini describes it, Japan is a kind of mammoth Santa's workshop full of exquisite wood and paper toys...