Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most persistent rumors round U.S. Army bases is that selected units are being trained to invade the oil countries of the Middle East. Indeed, the story is that the Army has actually been practicing to attack a country code-named, none too subtly, "Petrolandia...
Nevertheless, people have been calling Horowitz a genius--a boy genius, to be exact--since he was seven, and gurgled over the air in Morse Code, the youngest ham radio operator in the country. The talk continued as Horowitz went through Summit High School in New Jersey and Harvard, building gadgets in his free time like refrigerators with no moving parts and advanced telescopes. And when he began dating a tall blond nursing student named Carol Grodzins a few years ago, colleagues often approached her at parties and whispered, as if sharing a delicate secret, "Paul is such a genius...
Horowitz has always found much of his amusement in dreaming up gadgets, off-beat electronic gear that no one has built before, whether by choice or by oversight. As offshoots of early hobbies, he built a teletype for ham operators that transmits in Morse Code, and a metronome that, with a few adjustments, clicks out a syncopated beat. Lately, he seems most tickled by a small box he and two undergraduates built, which has been programmed with the algorithms of various types of music. Given a note, the machine will make a random choice based on probabilities of which note...
THERE IS NO coherent plot to Box Man, although there appears to be an extremely complicated code beneath its surface that, like DNA, offers endless possibilities and possible endlessness. The novel begins with several pages on how to construct and live in a box, and then shifts to the narrator, who is scribbling his story on the inside of his box. Because we are all locked in our own boxes, this annoyingly anonymous fellow asserts, we are left to our imaginations, and they become just as valuable as the so-called real world we see around us. They are perhaps...
...eventually codified in the Talmud. It includes legal judgments known as halakhah and pious elaborations of biblical stories known as aggadah. Even in matters of law, however, the rabbis were not literalists. An "eye for an eye," for example, was not construed strictly (as it was in the Hammurabic Code). Instead, monetary compensation was deemed lawful. Nor were Jewish commentators troubled by the verbatim truth of every Bible narrative. Some, like the creation chapters of Genesis, were considered part of the "secrets of the Torah," mysteries to be continually probed for their hidden meanings...