Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will worker productivity plummet along with the mercury in frosty offices? Possibly, says Dr. Ralph Goldman, a U.S. Army environmental medicine expert who documents human responses under a variety of climatic conditions. Goldman suggests that manual dexterity can suffer in temperatures of less than 68°. Does this mean that wool hats and mufflers will soon be de rigueur in the typing pool? Or fingerless gloves? "I'll bring in a space heater before I'll wear those," grumbles a Manhattan secretary.* But she will try thermal underwear beneath her baggy jeans...
...remarkable not because it records a worthy performance--it's rifled with musical problems of evert sort--but because it solves the worst of the artistic problems that have kept opera off the screen. With any luck future directors will be able to use Losey's film as a manual for capturing better performances and interpretations...
...church's opposition to abortion began with a doctrinal manual, the Didache (circa 100 A.D.), which called all abortion "murder." That view has never much altered through the centuries: the Second Vatican Council reiterated that abortion is "an unspeakable crime." Abortion did not become much of an issue among Catholics, or members of other religions, until the 20th century, when some governments began to legalize it. Modern Popes have opposed abortion for any reason "from the moment of conception," and John Paul links it to such assorted violations of human rights as mercy killing...
...surprise. It crept up behind him. It crushed him by the weight of its blow: the need for a plot. He left his typewriter and consulted the books in his den. Certainly one of them should provide a plot worth appropriating. He leafed through his books--all manuals. He had airplane manuals, car manuals, weapons manuals. And of course, a tattered sex manual. His head filled with story ideas, confidence renewed, he returned to his writing desk...
...INTELLIGENT STUDENTS need this cliche-ridden crutch to college. The insecure may empathize with the tongue-tied beanstalks in the section on relationships--but what's a manual called College Knowledge without a discussion of carnal knowledge? As it is, all references to clandestine activity--booze, drugs or sex--are submitted from the parent/medic perspective: peril shadows those who indulge. Long lists proclaim the relative effectiveness of various contraceptives; even lengthier ones describe the side effects of drugs. Most students are already bombarded by such warnings, yet Edelhart omits what could be the most useful information to students themselves...