Word: learnings
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...eater, whether overweight or not, trembles when she eats-indulges, feels guilty, punishes herself-or, in control, abstains, purifies. A brownie eaten for dessert can ruin an evening. You are ugly ! You are weak. No one will love you. You are fat, she tells the mirror. When will you learn? look at you! The scale measures neuroses as well as pounds...
...Once we begin to respect where and what we eat, macrobiotic and other restaurants which care about the quality of their food will proliferate. Eventually, we will begin to prepare it ourselves. We will find that the biological and aesthetic aspects of food are inseparable. Learn to treat food as food and not as if it were a suppository. We don't eat food simply to kill an appetite or so it can leave our bodies. We eat it for what it does while it's still there...
Despite their hunger for the new, the Japanese still show a marked in terest in their heritage. Housewives flock to schools to learn origami (paper folding), flower arrangement and the ancient tea ceremony just as unmarried girls fill charm and beauty schools. More flags are out on holidays, and the man's formal kimono is making a modest comeback. Novelist Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors) has formed his own private army of 100 men to help restore discipline, patriotism and pride in young Japanese. But many artists are exceptions to the growing preoccupation with Japanese identity. They consider their work...
Burger also scored the nearly total lack of worthwhile vocational training in American prisons. "It is no help to prisoners," he said, "to learn to be pants pressers if pants pressers are a glut on the labor market." His two basic solutions: breaking down large institutions into smaller units that separate first offenders and teen-agers from older repeaters, and eliminating popular prejudices against ex-prisoners...
...factories, landscape wreckers, noise and other "disproducts." The job will not be quick or easy. "I look forward to the day when statisticians add up the national accounts to take account of the depreciation of the environment," said Burns to the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week. "When we learn to do this, we will discover that our gross national product has been deceiving...