Word: manually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wealth of the Akizukis, a noble house recently deposed in civil war. The Akizuki princess (dressed in tight blouse and bulky shorts) and her loyal general (half-shaven but infinitely courageous) travel with the gold-filled faggots. Two peasant refugees and a woman saved from prostitution do the manual labor...
...affluence is shaping a new class. Today only one man in three has the same social status his father held; only one in every four sons of unskilled workers is himself unskilled. "Many manual workers," reports a Labor Ministry survey -on spending, "have habits and tastes which formerly were regarded as middle class." But Sociologist Ferdynand Zweig, researching a study of "The Worker in an Affluent Society," found that the new-habits and tastes are largely material. The working class is spending little of its new income on intellectual self-improvement. About 60% neither knew nor cared about Karl Marx...
...tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary to teach him a manual trade...
...Communist at all). As a former member of the Kuomintang, he was accused of joining the Communist Party only out of opportunism. Condemned to a period of intensive reindoctrination, Peng recanted, asked for the opportunity to rehabilitate himself by working as an ordinary peasant. Mao benevolently excused him from manual labor, exiled him to obscurity as a superintendent of a commune...
...Mightiest of all Wurlitzers: Radio City Music Hall's 58-rank monster with twin four-manual consoles, still in constant use after 30 years of intermissions...