Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teacher-turned-adman (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn), he has become convinced that education pays too little attention to imagination, and he has taken it upon himself to do something about it. Last year he wrote a textbook called Applied Imagination (Scribner; $3.75). drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course as a bit on the brash side, he has managed to chalk up an impressive record. His ideas have been...
With that storm passed. Stoddard found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually...
Their complaints: in most countries a physician makes five to nine times as much as a manual worker, but in Israel he is lucky if he makes half as much again. Many a hospital cook with a big family takes home a fatter pay envelope than the chief of the medical staff (380 Israeli pounds, or $292, after 25 years' service...
Bracing Brother. In 1932 the Griffins are a well-to-do Los Angeles family, so close that no member breathes except through the smothering palm of another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made...
...additional six weeks of camp, the cadet would learn map reading, the manual of arms, and practice foot drill, command, and manual subjects...