Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell-over-mouthpiece impromptu...
...Audrey." Scientists at the Bell Telephone Laboratories have tried for years to build a machine that will "understand" human speech. First step was to transform spoken words into dancing patterns on a cathode-ray tube. Now they have built "Audrey" (for automatic digit recognition), an electronic telephone girl that recognizes ten spoken digits, 1 through 0. Hooked up to an ordinary telephone, Audrey listens to a spoken telephone number and matches its digits against sound patterns in her memory. Then she flashes numbered lights to show what she has heard. Audrey can be tuned to one man's vocal...
...Between restless peregrinations, he settles for brief periods in the "house the Bridge built" in New Haven. It is a simple, sunlit house, perched on top of a hill; Wilder's sister Isabel keeps house. When he is there, he usually gets up at 7 ("The bell of Lawrenceville still rings in my head") and goes out for breakfast - sometimes to the railroad station, a three-mile walk. He eats whatever he feels like eating. "What did you have for lunch?" Woollcott once asked him. "Lobster Newburgh, cocoa and brandy." Said Woollcott with a shudder: "That...
...surrounded by a high wall. Even the servants were kept out of sight. The banquet room was equipped with an ingenious table volante, which could be lowered into the cellar, raised up again laden with delicacies. Louis or La Pompadour needed only to scribble a note and punch a bell...
Tabbed as an incipient revolutionary, Conant moved carefully his first year in office. He earned the gratitude of undergraduates by eliminating the "rising bell" which for generations had shocked Yard-dwellers out of bed at 7 a.m., and he gave his approval to the serving of bear in House dining halls. For the most part, however, he took to heart the confidential advice of out going. President Lowell "the first duty of Harvard's president is to resist pressure" and steeled himself for the task...