Word: comptons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characters are exploited by the director, Compton Burnett, to dramatize their own predicament. The officer, Commandant Hohensee (Marius Goring) is made to say things like, "What we share--our music, our talks--has nothing to do with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments...
...rest of the schedule: May 5--Pennsylvania and Navy at Annapolis (Adams Cup); May 12--Eastern Sprints at Washington; May 19--Princeton, Dartmouth, and M.I.T. at Princeton (Compton...
...digital computers and other instrumentation devices. War-time discoveries in circuit theories led to the development of increasingly complicated calculators. Recent research includes work on a machine that will translate languages and turn speech into writing. As a memorial to the Institute's ninth president, Dr. Karl T. Compton, a center in which all of M.I.T.'s calculators will be concentrated is under construction...
Mother and Son, by Ivy Compton-Burnett, showed the aging (63) British novelist near the top of her brilliant form. She dealt with the tyranny of Momism, English upper-class variety, with the simple, brilliant device that has served her during 15 novels: human speech...
...statement, only nine (including Russell and Einstein) did so. Communist Curie signed only after making a reservation to the effect that revolutions should not be included in the renunciation. Among the scientists who refused to sign were eight Nobel Prizewinners, including Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur H. Compton and Harold C. Urey of the U.S., who apparently were devoting their interest to science...