Word: handicraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaysen stated that the "soulful" corporation represented "the industrial revolution applied to capitalism." He drew an analogy between the turn from a "learned handicraft to a rationalized technique" in the industrial revolution and the growing emphasis on the "professionalization of management function" replacing "intuitive management" in the modern corporation...
...Work of Handicraft. Divided into classical and modern sections, the show opened with 25 exhibits, drew hordes of admiring students and scores of professors who were torn by mixed emotions. In Suárez' opinion, the modern section was a bit of a flop: "A chuleta, to be worthy, must bear the imprint of the student's personality and be a work of Spanish handicraft...
...promoting the new Tufts College extension of the PBH program; John L. Higgins '57 organizes Cambridge City workers, and Morton F. Goldberg '58 is in charge of PBH work at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; David Chernof '57 directs the Program's relations with the University, arranges Lamont displays, handicraft exhibits, and publicity; and Jonathan P. Marget '58, secretary, handles the vast amount of paper work involved in placing the Volunteers in their proper places in each of the five hospitals every week. Margaret E. Putney '56, PBH vice-president in charge of General Hospitals, assists Reiss in integrating...
Despite the public's present divorcement from poetry, Muir said, the appreciation and even the creation of verse were once very much public property. Two hundred years ago people lived in a handicraft culture, and Muir felt that artisans who could produce a fine chair would be more likely to appreciate a well constructed poem than would the owner of a large furniture store...
...concrete vineyard. Occasionally they make peace among warring street gangs, stage drives against narcotics, or organize meetings to urge reforms. But most of their work is less dramatic. Both boys and girls handle groups of children ranging from three-year-olds to teenagers. They hold Bible classes, teach handicrafts, chaperone teen-age dances at church recreation centers, take youngsters on trips to beaches, museums, ball games, or on hikes and camping trips. When they find that their charges belong to a street gang, they often try to organize handicraft classes or canteens for the whole gang. They continually call...