Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luckily, at least some of the buffoonery provokes laughs. One especially funny moment occurs when Dick attempts the robbery of a drugstore. He starts feeling around inside his pants for the gun; the druggist winks slyly and offers him six brands of prophylactics. And, when the two hold up the...
When Beckett presents a comedy of manners, as in Come and Go, he includes three women, gossip, hypocrisy, but no drawing room, and no second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts...
It isn't that they want to return to the old system, but somehow the computer winds up putting people either in one of their first three or last three choices.
The middle range tends to disappear, because those Houses that are considered mildly desirable are someone else's first choice, and get filled up the first time the computer scans the lists.
The computer will place as many rooming groups as possible in their first three choices, and after that, it will assign them at random.