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...suffered the pain and humiliation of having his ARETE cut from under him by a well-aimed charge of unresolved DICHOTOMY thrown in by a character loaded with gin and HUBRIS at a literary cocktail party ought to buy this splendidly written dictionary. Without being exactly a manual for the uncertain intellectual, it does live up to its blurb ("not only useful but enjoyable"). If a great many of the hundreds of terms seem Greek to the reader, the reason is that a great many of them are, for the Greeks were first in the study of rhetoric-the rules...
...could be reduced to a series of formulas. It should appeal to the mind rather than the eye, must force nature to comply with the rigid rules of perspective, proportion and reason. Since form was more permanent than color, it was also more important. Le Brun even wrote a manual on how to portray each emotion...
...Saint for Jelly? Among the religious entrepreneurs, the widest ranging are the Trappists, who are bound to manual labor by their monastic rule, do all of their own work, and communicate only in sign language. The 200 monks at Massachusetts' St. Joseph's Abbey decided to go into the jelly business in 1954, after a batch of homemade jelly, made up with advice from a local housewife (whom they jokingly promise to make a saint), sold out at a fair. They put one monk to reading books on jellies and production techniques, assigned another with a degree...
Rodger W. Griffin, director of Chem 20 labs, blamed the accidents on "negligence on the student level" during the experiment, the preparation of sulfanilamide from benzene. The lab manual contains a special note warning students that chlorosulfonic acid is strongly corrosive and reacts violently when in contact with water...
...copilots, all ALPA members, walked off their jobs last June when Hulse turned down their demands for shorter hours, a boost in wages (captains were making an average of $13,000 annually) and changes in the working rules, notably the elimination of a clause in the company's manual that prohibits married pilots from dating stewardesses. Hulse said that the demands would boost the line's operating expenses $665,000 a year, and since he is already getting $3,200,000 a year in government subsidy, he was not at all sure that he could get the necessary...