Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some theoretical physicists have no visible connection with practicality, but others who are just as erudite hope that "hardware" will eventually grow out of their bold thinking. Professor Malcolm W. Strandberg of M.I.T. bases his reasoning on the weird idea of temperatures below absolute zero. Such temperatures do not exist in the ordinary, tangible sense, but they help Dr. Strandberg think about phenomena strongly affected by temperature...
...been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories and those of Professor N. Bloembergen of Harvard, has tested successfully a deep-frozen device that acts as an oscillator and promises to grow into a Versitron-like amplifier. Magnetic Explosion. The magnetic fields that exist around horseshoe magnets are gentle, harmless things, but when a magnetic field gets really intense, it acts like a high explosive. Physicists H. P. Furth of the University of California, M. A. Levine of the Air Force Cambridge Research Center, and R. W. Waniek of Harvard showed a ring...
...read the most heroic and most significant, and he must know about it, and be able to answer when questioned. This means that he must read "the original" in order to satisfy his conscience. Criticism is, however, needed to retain his social status, since personal reactions, even when they exist, are seldom marketable. This is a very time-consuming process, known as being an English major; but since the habit is unproductive it seldom extends beyond the college level, except as it becomes a part of the professional ritual of professional debates, or the publisher's cocktail parade...
...long as reading is "our duty to the party," it might as well not exist. The science of the humanities, otherwise known as English Literature must be ousted from consciousness if we are to read. In the case of a few hardy souls, formal study can provide a few illuminating tools. But when studying books means answering questions, and when the answers are to be assessed by a man who puts a higher value on a stock response than a capacity to ignore the theories and the critics, then reading is on the way out. Any group of people which...
...Lennie was the life of a thousand parties. "I just ran for the piano," he recalls, "as soon as I got in the door, and stayed there until they threw me out. It was as though I didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...