VISIT OUR luG For Openers... The Road To Progress Needs An Off Ramp 30-CAR INDOOR SHOWROOM! 0 I was spelled out on his worksheet (I sound of loud voices at 2:30 a.m. I t is not hard to lose patience peeked) and was surprised to find stumbled in to the TV room, turned with those who staunchly avoid there was, in fact, no delete. He called I was tap- down the volume of a show progress. service. They had him give me a new ing and tried to go back to sleep. Pre- As a young man, I recall "old remote" that had the delete but- viously, my VCR taped scoffing at "older people" ton. "But," he said, "you'll now have internally; it never turned who would not drive on to use the remote from your VCR for I found the TV on. This, those "new fangled express- , the running of that feature; you'll now through another call, was ways;" who would jeer at the use the new remote for operating day- I must now not the case. need for electric can openers to-day and the new "old" remote to remember to turn the vol- and who never even consid- delete. ume down low before going ered a color TV Progress? Bah! 0 off to bed on a taping night. These days, I try to go The last great frustration with the flow, especially since came when I wanted to I find labor-saving devices delete a set of taping and developments really do SY instructions. I used every live up to their reputations. MANELLO button to no avail; a third However, even with the 21st Editorial Assistant call was made to service. by Martha Jo Fleischmann century in the offing, there (Three calls in three days — are some things I must be not bad for progress.) The technician, There once was a hen known as dragged kicking and screaming to with that of-course-it-can-be-done- June accept and deal with. At the top of my but- you-just-aren't-doing-it tone in Who said, "I poop out much too list is multiple TV remote controls. his voice walked me through each soon. My exasperation proved unending step. Then he said, "Now, push the era I wake, when our cable company called to delete button." "That's the problem," . mistake. d that Yom arrange an "upgrade" in the equip- I explained. "There isn't one." He ere* by noon!" ment. The service department called apologized and arranged for a techni- — not at dinner time, which was a cian to come to the house to deliver a break, sunrise plus as far as I was concerned. I was new remote. also told that there would be no When the serviceman arrived, he charges involved — a second plus, asked about the problem, though it surely. The service man came as sched- uled — I was really on a roll! The new box was installed and I was handed a remote control! Sensing my trepida- tion — let's face it, I recoiled — the serviceman patiently went through all the buttons and procedures. "The dedicated technocrats of Jewish communal life, from left to right, That night, I tried to set the clock are often humorless, not schooled in the values of wordplay, double-entendre, on the box, which is a new feature, parody, the use of jokes to make a point more subtly. because it was off by several minutes; This is a particular challenge for the young. my fear was that this would affect the Being Jewish can be fun as well as a duty." taping of shows. I could not find the — Stanley Rosen, professor emeritus, Labor and Industrial Relations, choice on the menu so I called the University of Illinois company. "Oh," said the attendant, "that feature can only be done by us." "They became the first Orthodox minyan on the continent of Antarctica." "Well, it's off," I said. "I'll report — One of 4 5 Jewish passengers on the first kosher tour to Antarctica, that," she said. Result? It's still off! describing prayer services in the snow among the penguins and glaciers. Next, I was rudely awakened by the N.116 „. .,.: ......._ ,s, o f f . i t