Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace Corps volunteers arrive in the tropics loaded down with many sorts of equipment, not all of it physical. In addition to cameras, tape recorders, spray deodorants, and insecet repellent, they carry with them a whole train of mental baggage: a set of attitudes and expectations about their new environment...
...Defense Department should develop programs to educate and train volunteers who do not meet minimum military acceptance standards to bring them "up to the level of usefulness as a soldier...
Measure of Self-Respect. The decisive element, which has eluded most conventional job programs, was the inculcation of personal pride that Negroes so often lacked. "You can't train someone by just putting him behind a machine," Sullivan maintains. "You've got to see that he's properly motivated and has a measure of self-respect." The students, many of them migrants from the rural South, were taught the achievements of their own race and of other minorities. Not only were they told how to conduct themselves in a job interview, a basic lesson other such courses...
Comrade Majorová is also concerned about some of the polar bears who turn up on crowded Czech trams and in train compartments. "People in dirty work clothes should not get on public transport, because they will soil other people's clothes," she writes. "In the train, don't fall asleep on a stranger's knee." Nor should comradely formalities be overdone. Don't, for instance, shout the reverent Communist greeting, "Honor to labor!" to a friend who is sunbathing on the beach: such enthusiasm, she warns, "could appear ironic." More important, when greeting a woman...
...rhythmically insidious as the clack of rails under a train, double dactyls have already infected Eastern campuses, and may soon spread cross-country. If they do, the book's collaborators are forewarned...