Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped set up the experiment thought it was an auspicious start. With a vocabulary of only 250 words, the machine was able to translate sentences dealing with politics, law, mathematics, chemistry, metallurgy, communications and military affairs. Samples: "Magnitude of angle is determined by the relation of length of arc to radius." "Starch is produced by mechanical methods from potatoes," "A military court sentenced a sergeant to deprival of civil rights." To translate clearly, the machine had to have some simple translation rules (i.e., how to choose one of several meanings) impressed on its "memory" apparatus. And Russian letters...
...Naples. Actress Ingrid Bergman, still wearing her medieval stage robes and manacles, exchanged toasts with husband Roberto Rossellini after the opening of Arthur Honegger's new opera, Joan of Arc at the Stake, in which Ingrid starred (but did not sing). Rossellini directed the production, Ingrid's first stage job since her 1947 appearance on Broadway in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine...
...shape of a Texas belle (Eleanor Parker) who makes a play for the strong man of the garrison (William Holden). Unaware that Eleanor is really conspiring with the leader of the Confederate prisoners (John Forsythe), Holden plays right along with her-until suddenly both of them discover that they arc playing for keeps...
...most famous extravaganza of this period came in 1909, with Charles Frohman's presentation in the Stadium of Schiller's Joan of Arc, starring Maude Adams. The production was under the auspices of the German Department and for the benefit of the Germanic Museum. On a balmy June night 15,000 people filled the Classic Horseshoe to watch Miss Adams and a supporting cast of 1,500 calvarymen, soldiers and archers parade across the Battlefield of France, while a hidden orchestra played Beethovan's "Eroica' Symphony...
...group here in the last two decades--the Harvard Veterans Workshop. Back from the wars in 1947 came a group of talented, ambitious students who already had done considerable work in profession-5The above scene is from a dress rehearsal of the 1909 production of Schiller's "Joan of Arc." The star, Maude Adams, is shown at left center. Presented in the Stadium under the auspices of the German Department, this production had a supporting cast of 1,500 calvarymen, bowmen and soldiers and attracted a crowd of over...