Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone concerned with the fate of the typewriter will recognize a trend. It is going, this wonderful machine. It is on its way out of the world. Whether at the urgings of the Communists or the word processors, the device that has come to be called the old-fashioned manual will soon lie dusty in fraudulent antique shops between the duck decoys and the miniature spoons. "What's that funny-looking box, Daddy?" "Why, that's an Underwood, darling [gulping imperceptibly...
...NARRATIVE is leavened, however, by Erofeev's prodigal powers of comic invention. There are countless passages of Rabelaisian discourse. One entire chapter is devoted to a detailed analysis of Russia's greatest calling--hiccups. Another chapter is a bartender's manual for some of the most bizarre drinks ever conceived, including an unorthodox mixture of beer, two kinds of shampoo (one anti-dandruff), and insect repellant. The humor ranges from the highly subtle to the truly gross, most of it reasonably well-served by J.R. Dorrell's colloquial translation...
...unprecedented decision, the council voted 35-22 to add a statement to the Academic Appointment Manual extending affirmative action considerations to tenure and promotion review. "In accordance with the University's commitment to racial ethnic and gender diversity in the education experience, it is appropriate and desirable that affirmative action considerations also be taken into account in the evaluation of faculty for tenure and promotion," the amendment states...
...Freshman Advisers this fall and a description of the Board written by Thomas Crooks, a Special Assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, appearing in a recent Parents Newsletter. Those with a taste for the arcane might like to thumb through the Senior Tutor's Manual, available in every Senior Tutor's office. One publication which, alas, cannot be made available, because it contains the names of individual students, is a huge tome known as The Precedents of the Administrative Board, which describes every significant case considered by the Board between 1892 and 1970 when...
...solution, calligraphers say, is a simplified version of italic, one of the predominant handwriting styles of the Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create...