Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from-the-ranks infantryman who led Brazilian troops in Italy in World War II, Castello Branco is a lover of good music, reads avidly in four languages, has lived in both France and the U.S., and is reported to have a deep social conscience about the problems that dog Brazil. Much of his career was spent in the poverty-stricken, drought-devastated northeast. He was not one of the first plotters of the revolt, and thought long and hard before lending his weight to it. "We have toppled a government of the extreme left," Castello Branco said after his election...
Cunning & Dog Food. Carnegie is lavishly addicted to long-range research, in which students join professors to anticipate future business problems. By simulating human problem solving on a computer, for example, Psychologist Herbert A. Simon and his colleagues have been teaching the machine to "think"-that is, to make "cunning" choices by a form of reasoning rather than computing answers by doggedly calculating all possible alternatives. Using Simon's methods, an M.I.T. researcher has computerized the numerous and subtle judgments required in trust investment. Carnegie claims credit for the first industrial application of linear programming, which has since been...
...Nymph & Satyr. To the casual eye, this dog walker, churchgoer and drinker of neighborly gins could be just another exurbanite worried about taxes and with strong views on zoning. But this is an obsessed man. Re-created in his novels and stories as Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor, the suburban region is subjected to terrible metamorphosis. It is not Sing Sing Prison straddling the New York Central tracks by the Hudson shore that is the worst destination of the inhabitants, but a netherworld of damnation. In Metamorphoses, one neighbor has suffered a magical transformation into Actaeon, torn...
...some of the specifics of Cheever's childhood let him down-a fact which may have something to do with the fact that today he wears Brooks Brothers shirts with their conspicuously missing pockets and would never consider having a mongrel dog. Unlike its St. Botolphs counterpart, the old family homestead in Quincy was not the biggest house in town, and his family was not the first family, and Quincy, of course, is a fairly routine middle-class "suburb" of Boston...
...Pianist Henry Orient attempts to seduce an undecided young matron (Paula Prentiss). Circling his prey in a lush Manhattan lair, he glances into the street, and blanches at what he sees: two diminutive furies, one as apple-cheeked and winsome as Heidi, the other an indescribable creature with sheep-dog hairdo, daredevil eyes, and a tacky mink coat that grazes her ankles. What do they want? "It's exactly the sort of thing my husband would think of," gasps Paula. "Little girl detectives...