Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has happened to Cosmopolitan since Women Liberationists let Mrs. Brown know that a cupcake must learn to bite back? What has happened to Playboy since Gloria Steinem told Hefner, "A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual...
...excavation itself proved, in varying degrees, exciting to diggers, although novices exported romantic notions about archeology which the dig pitilessly disillusioned. Every volunteer was instructed by his site supervisor in a crash course about field methods, and learned to dig by trial and error. Field work was really manual labor. At one site during the final season, diggers pick-axed for nine hours through modern street pavement and bedrock every day before they could begin the usual troweling, which was far less tiring, but more painstaking work. To dig well required patience and exactitude, imagination and endurance...
...college's own students learn in their two-year course of study how to steer teenagers' attitudes away from "bourgeois" careerism and alleged intellectual elitism. One method is to dirty school-children's hands with frequent stints of manual labor. The young future teachers must themselves engage part-time in labor...
...class protest, of general dissatisfaction, among the Wallaceites. While only 44 per cent of Nixon voters and 55 per cent of Humphrey voters considered themselves "working class," 64 per cent of the people who voted for Wallace did so. Moreover, 40 per cent of Wallace's supporters held "manual occupation" jobs as opposed to 36 per cent for Humphrey and 28 per cent for Nixon. Finally, among the grade school educated, a good test for how the disinherited are voting, the swing away from the Democrats between 1960 and 1968 was only three per cent; the swing away from...
Economou's assignments have proved equally nagging. Despite Casey's elaborate manual of instructions, she says, "Every detail of a trip is a potential disaster." Ten minutes before Muskie was scheduled to speak in Manchester, N.H., the sound equipment went on the blink. Economou managed to scrounge up replacements with only seconds to spare...