Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much police frustration would vanish overnight if salaries rose by 50%-to what many union plumbers make. Police brains would sharpen immensely if every department in the country stopped requiring even the best-educated rookies to start out as foot patrolmen. Instead, the police ought to ease archaic seniority and allow college graduates to start as management trainees. Equally important, police duties should be drastically reduced and refined. Certainly, police should not be responsible for carting drunks to jail-one-third of all arrests. A good case could be made for putting traffic control in the hands of some other...
...staked out Rome's Capitoline Hill with geese that would signal the approach of the invading Gauls, the Americans have recruited geese for early-warning duty on Saigon's bridges, which are choice targets for Communist demolition teams. The idea is that the cantankerous birds will start to honk madly as soon as someone approaches within 25 feet of their cages. To distinguish them from civilian geese-and to keep them from winding up in Vietnamese cooking pots-the birds have had their feathers dyed purple. Originally, the birds were issued dog tags, but they refused to tolerate...
Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive. If Carmen is nasty all the time, who needs that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character...
Basically, the manual is a catalogue of techniques which can be used to start discussion, keep it coherent, and guide it to fruitful conclusion. At the same time, it points to sources of section-man domination, reviews the basic concepts of the course, and describes the attitudes the section man must deal with in himself and others...
...dedicated to its aims, and they've had time to prepare. Compare this to the situation of most new teaching fellows. One or two days after Graduate School registration, they attend their departmental meeting, and find out what course sections and tutorials they're scheduled to lead. They start right in teaching the next week (often for the first time in their lives), handling material they probably haven't studied since sophomore year of college. Overworked and invariably unprepared, they manage to stumble through...