Word: instructions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lobbying tips in the training packed, which supplement a training meeting held last week at Suffolk University, instruct students not to threaten, not to act as if you know it all and not to beg "Over lunch at a trucking stop in Connecticut, students discussed some supplementary strategies
...catch on. The disc machine, unlike the tape, cannot copy; it can only play. It excels as a teaching tool, but RCA has marketed it for consumer entertainment, where it has fared poorly compared with tape. The bright hope is what vid whizzes call interactive discs. These can instruct the viewer in a variety of pursuits or, wired through a home computer, can let him seek specific help. On one prototype, for example, a viewer with a troublesome bicycle can pinpoint the malfunctioning part of a two-wheeler, and the disc will show him how to repair it. Unfortunately...
...budding negotiators, but they are insights that will bolster the bargaining skill of only the least animate members of the human race. Fisher, for example urges bargainers to "develop your BATNA" ("best alternative to a negotiated agreement")--to determine what action to take should talks collapse. Other sections instruct diplomats that "being nice is no answer" and urge negotiators to "listen actively and acknowledge what is being said" and to "make the most of your assets." That's sort of like reminding a baseball batter to remember to bring his bat to the plate, and to keep...
After each chapter, the authors put together short "style quotient tests," so that "the reader can determine exactly how much style he or she has to begin with." These tests are supposed to amuse as well as instruct, but if this is supposed to be a Preppy Handbook rip-off, it falls far short of the light and self-mocking tone that makes the Handbook readable...
...image, the current production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera captures the cardinal principle of epic theater: a rigid separation between the stage and spectator. This separation, or alienation, prevents the spectator from identifying with the characters. Brechtian theater presents man for scrutiny, to entertain and instruct the spectator. Didactic in intent, it forces him to observe, make decisions, and act on them. Under R.J. Cutler's direction, Threepenny Opera shines with all the power and excitement inherent in Epic theater...