Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago," Oettinger points out," "the computer was a toy for the user, restricted to those who loved the beast; but not now." Ten years from now there might be one in every House. Ten years after that, there might be one in every house.Computer operators analyze facts and figures delivered by the IBM 7094. This is the only computer Harvard owns cut-right--it is usually better to rent because computers become obsolete. In September of 1964, this machine was handling 250 hours per week of work, and now it is up to 600 hours per week. There...
Clobbering the Critics. More than anything else, it's the critics who bring out the beast (and the best) in Merrick. To a considerable degree, the reviewers who write for the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune can make or break any show that comes to Broadway. Producers have always complained about the critics' power, but nobody did anything until, from motives no doubt crass as well as cultural, David loaded his sling...
...lions, we can see loafers and white blue jeans underneath his white robes. He could have at least worn sandles. The lion's costume was perhaps the most ludicrous of all. Wrapped in curling yellow fur, he looks more like a toy teddy bear than a snarlng beast. When he finally eats the plotting courtiers the actin takes place off stage anyway, so that there seems to be no reason for him to appear at all and turn a supposedly terrifying scene into something awkward and funny...
...pair drive into a nearby river. Frantz's tape-recorded voice goes on sermonizing in the library: "The century might have been a good one, had not man been watched from time immemorial by the cruel enemy who had sworn to destroy him, that hairless, evil, flesh-eating beast -man himself...
Justice v. Fate. This monistic vision falsifies life. Man is a beast - he may also be a saint, a sage, or an averagely decent human being. Like Arthur Miller, another public accountant of guilt, Sartre wants to even the score of past wrongs, to wrench justice from fate. This mentality is impervious to the tragic sense, the view of existence best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying...