Word: modelling
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Princeton Theological Seminary, considered among the best Protestant seminaries in training preachers, requires three courses on the subject. One covers enunciation, pace, voice production, posture and similar techniques, and is taught by a layman trained in speech. A second analyzes the construction of model sermons from the past. The student learns to mine Bible commentaries, boil his message down to a single sentence, then write out a well-organized sermon. In the final course, students in groups of twelve deliver sermons and criticize one another's-performances...
...story has become a way of life for Skew's neighbors. Says he: "You get parties up here where home are not talking about adultery or Iran, but about the superior quality of their wood stoves. Of course, we all tell incredible lies about how long our model will hold a fire...
...residential water pressure of 60 lbs. per sq. in., a conventional shower nozzle sprays out 35 gal. of water every five minutes. For $22.95, Teledyne Water Pik offers a nozzle that cuts water usage to 15 gal. during a five-minute shower without loss of pressure. A less expensive model, made by the Con-Serv Corp., retails for $13.95 and cuts water flow to only 10.5 gal. Cheapest of all: a plastic "water-miser" insert that costs less than 1? and was mailed this autumn by the Department of Energy free of charge to 4.5 million homeowners throughout...
...great machine thinks like a whiz, it has no human emotions. And so the picture ends not with a bang but, as it were, a bang. One of the space cadets, who has had his eye on the original Ilia all along, agrees to mate with the improved model and produce a hybrid race of brainy but emotionally turned-on creatures. Just imagine how the effects guys get the colored lights whirling in order to preserve the G rating when that happens...
...church organist, teacher of a women's class, a devoted wife and the mother of four. Energetic, attractive and dutiful, Sonia Johnson, 43, seemed the very model of a modern Mormon matron. But she was also a militant lobbyist for the Equal Rights Amendment. Last week, apparently as a result, she found herself excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Sterling Park, Va. She can still attend services, but can take no active part in the life of the congregation. More important, Mormons believe that if she does not repent and get rebaptized...