Word: colds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alben Berkley was going to spend his Christmas with the U.S. garrison in Berlin, as co-star of a cold-war U.S.O. troupe that included Bob Hope, Jinx Falkenburg, Irving Berlin, Air Secretary Stuart Symington, and half a dozen Rockettes. A Congressman for 35 years, Vice President-elect for eight weeks, Barkley was living up to his new responsibilities: "My time just isn't my own any more...
...such primitive beginnings has grown what Dr. Wiener considers the most startling (and ominous) development in human evolution. Engines and production machines replace human muscles; control mechanisms replace human brains. Even a thermostat thinks, after a fashion. It acts like a man who decides that the room is too cold and puts more coal in the stove...
Nothing to Sell. Many times throughout his book Dr. Wiener stops in a cold sweat and looks a few years ahead: "Long before Nagasaki and the public awareness of the atomic bomb," he says, "it had occurred to me that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil . . . The first industrial revolution . . . was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery . . . The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and routine decisions . . . The human being of mediocre...
...Most Californians blamed the unusually warm weather, pointed to a drop in cases after the arrival of cold rains and frosty mornings. But public health officials in Washington doubted the weather explanation. California wasn't the only state with loitering polio. North Carolina reported 24 new cases in the week ending Dec. 11 (last year there were five in the comparable week; in 1946, two). Cases went up, too, in Texas, Georgia, Minnesota, Iowa...
Toland's subtle transition shots make the jumps seem as smooth as cold cream. Sample: in the '90s, Niven's older sister (Jayne Meadows) stands in the hallway of their house holding a large brass key. He has just sworn never to touch it again (or enter the house) as long as she lives. The camera narrows its focus to the key; the key turns in a lock-in the hand of Niven's grandniece (Evelyn Keyes) half a century later...