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Surprisingly, there is no animosity towards the few Americans living in China. On the contrary, the authorities make every effort to distinguish their attacks on our government from their often-voiced admiration of the American people. Thus, when some of my friends jokingly nicknamed me "old American imperialism" (it is not as cumbersome in Chinese), the teachers were unamusd and tried to stop the practice...
...Words. The final decision was in favor of control by words. There are plenty of devices available that can distinguish with precision between a limited number of spoken words. The Honeywell men figured that a vocabulary of ten normal words was enough to give all needed commands. When the astronaut wants his gas jets to turn him to one side, say the engineers, all he should have to do is say "yaw" into his microphone. If he wants to make a fast turn, he will say "yaw, yaw, yaw." Direction of the yaw will be determined by saying "plus...
Though The Pawnbroker is full of emotional shocks, it is seldom deeply moving. At times Lumet's style seems self-conscious and stagy, unable to distinguish brass from gold, with more clever camera work than the somber occasions warrant and too many theatrically glib vignettes. One jarring note is struck by a vicious black racketeer and brothel master (Brock Peters) who supports Nazerman's pawnshop as a front for his deals while basking in the luxury of an improbable white-on-white world adorned with white jackets, white walls, and a blond loverboy...
...Horne's article about the Gov. Department raies different issues that he has falled to distinguish. One, what I mentioned as a reason for the social studies program (the study of Freud or Weber) is not necessarily a criticism of the Gov. Dept--merely a suggestion that there are various ways of studying society and polity...
They tune in to watch The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("such good evil," says a North Carolina viewer), The Rogues ("the best flick on the eye"), The Fugitive ("Fuge" to friends), Shindig or Hullabaloo ("the horny hours"), and horror shows (called "ghoul spools" at Harvard to distinguish them from wild parties). One Rad-Cliffie is the head of a Bullwinkle the Moose fan club, and at Stanford, "Bugs Bunny really causes a lot of comment-there's a lot to say about Bugs Bunny...