Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than meets the eye, or greets the ear in a waltzy-schmalzy score. The best way to simulate an evening at The Gay Life is to do what is done onstage: open two bottles of flat champagne...
...means a lot to us ot feel a hearty Yale slap on our backs. (And think what delightful shivers will go down the spine of each lucky girl when her very own, pre-scrubbed Yale man murmurs in her ear, "Please, dear--all the other fellows are doing...
...shoe box, so far recognizes only 16 spoken words, including the ten digits and six arithmetical command words such as plus and minus. But this is no mean feat. Earlier attempts to make machines recognize spoken words have run into trouble because they tried to copy the human ear, which analyzes the complicated mixture of sound frequencies in human speech. IBM Engineer William C. Dersch, inventor of Shoebox, thinks that this is like designing an airplane by copying a bird's feathers. His machine does not depend on sound frequencies; it recognizes words by listening for their "asymmetry...
...words and numbers for such harried people as airplane pilots or supermarket checkers. Later, it may graduate to recording customers' orders, controlling machine tools, or solving mathematical problems. Eventually, the day may come when a troubled scientist or businessman can tell his problem by voice to the listening ear of an electronic computer-and get a spoken oracle answer soon after he stops talking...
...Walpole, he is as waspishly well-bred as his father was openhanded and bluff, he doubtless does better to observe than participate. As the great Sir Robert's son, Horace Walpole had a ubiquitous entree as well as a tireless eye and the great world's attentive ear. His letters, the most diverting in all English literature, provide a lasting mirror of the 18th century aristocracy that ruled Great Britain; forged, as at times it fettered, taste; commanded a style, established an attitude...