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...Mussolini's Italian government, by appealing to nationalist and patriotic sentiment. In making these compromises on its original goal, the communists sought to prove themselves bourgeois democrats: they ruthlessly persecuted substantial Trotskyist and anarchist segments of the resistance. These groups were crushed, and their gains since the advent of socialism largely rescinded...
...advent of the computerized library has also brought new problems. Computers have a way of making simple research tasks more difficult--for example, when a casual user needs computer instruction just to find a book. Even trained librarians say there is an art to performing an efficient data- base search; an awkwardly phrased query can quickly lead to information overload, generating hundreds of responses. At the same time, computers can be too efficient, eliminating what is called the serendipity factor. "The real joy of scholarly research is discovering something valuable in the process of looking for something else," says Arnold...
Until the advent of instant lotteries, state-sponsored games were conducted by drawing. While such contests still have 70% of the market, scratch-ticket lotteries are growing in popularity because of the instant gratification--or dejection. Today, for a bet of $1, a lucky player can collect...
...advent of the computer has changed all that. Led by Astrophysicist Jerry Nelson, a team at the University of California designed an unorthodox mirror that will not be a continuous concave surface, like Hale's, but 36 hexagonal pieces of specially shaped glass, each 6 ft. across and 3 in. thick; the segments will be fit together and will move in concert to act as one giant parabolic mirror. That harmony is possible only with the aid of a computer- controlled sensing and positioning system, which will realign the components 100 times a second by as little...
WHITHER MODERN theater? Since the advent of film, most of the material that would have appeared on or off Broadway is much more ably shown on the screen. The greatest modern playwrights have realized this, tailoring their work for maximum theatrical impact. The less-than-greatest playwrights still have not mastered that trick, and the quite a bit less-than greatest don't even realize the obsolescence of their plays. It is into that latter category that Hugh Whitemore falls; if most new plays were like the Broadway-bound pack of Lies the question would not be "Whither modern theater...