Word: crystalize
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...prospered. Tichy explains: "If a time traveler goes 20 years ahead, he must necessarily become as many years older. How could it be otherwise?" Tichy also bumps into a man who has cloned himself and another who has created an eternal soul, its complex circuitry imprinted in sturdy crystal. Still another acquaintance thinks the cybernetic revolution has failed its promise by simply trying to mimic applied human intelligence. He labors to create disobedient devices: "If I present you with a machine that extracts square roots from even numbers but doesn't want to from odd numbers, that...
TUCHMAN'S TALENT FOR bringing historic episodes into sharp, dramatic focus has few rivals among modern writers. The words James Thurber once wrote of E.B. White could apply to Tuchman too: her sentences are "silver and crystal"; her ear "not only notes the louder cosmic rhythms, but catches the faintest ticking sounds...
Films of Janl Crystal Lipzin--Saturday at 8 p.m.; Boston Film/Video Foundation, 1126 Boylston...
Candlelight flickers softly in the room, dancing on the tablecloth and glinting on the goblets' crystal stems. The elegant table, laid for eight, is set for a lavish gourmet feast, and the guests, clad in evening gowns and tailored suits, talk of Herodotus and scientific ethics over white wine, blanched vegetables and cheddar cheese fondue. In the seat of honor, Emily Vermeule, professor of Fine Arts, discusses her excavations in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion. It is Jim Mitchell's dream come true...
...Crystal Gayle did a great job with last week's picks, but she's back home in Rocky Top, Tenn., and can't be reached for this week's selections. So, after studying the football publications, daily sports pages of 100 major newspapers and the Top 40 pop music charts from 1962-67, I am ready to predict this week myself...