Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shocking comparison between science education in our high schools and those of the U.S.S.R. - as brought out in your fine and important cover story on Dr. Edward Teller - is truly appalling. In light of this emergency where the security of our nation is involved, I think our quibbling, pussyfootiing, philosophizing, and hairsplitting over federal aid to education are ridiculous. Let's get with it. But fast...
...electronic computer also starts out on a problem using only two basic values-one for when the circuit is on, another for when it is off. But this primitive off-again-on-again arithmetic, combined with the ability to memorize numbers, to compare them and act on the comparison, goes at such fantastic speed and in such volume that the machine can solve the most complex problems in a matter of minutes or seconds...
Actually, passive as he may seem in comparison with his predecessors, today's student is anything but smug. Says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith: "If young people behaved after World War II exactly as they did before it, there would really be something wrong with them." The student now simply faces a different kind of world. It demands that he be brighter, more conscientious, more in earnest than his predecessors. If he refuses to play the rebel, it is probably because he feels he must cover too much ground to prepare himself for the future. Perhaps...
...Reader Bulpitt's apt comparison, see cuts...
Aside from these technical considerations, there is the influence on the film of maker and market. The film is a group project--plots, dialogue and all the rest of the details are discussed and determined in council--in comparison with the lonely and individual efforts of the novelist. Therefore the film is a far less personal creation. The film as industry--a big business requiring large capital--leaves its mark as well. With the exception of The Grapes of Wrath, for instance, most labor films, (even the excellent On the Water-front) depict labor disorders as being caused by personal...