Word: follow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kalamazoo, Mich., came on the computer line last week, by mid-June Nashville and Omaha will follow suit, with Norfolk and Seattle due to join the system by July 1. By then Realtron hopes to have its intercity circuits working effectively. First two areas to start exchanging data will be northern Virginia and Detroit. Pictures of the homes will be converted into small film clips and flashed on a screen, thus bringing closer the day when families can pick their houses across the U.S. on a national computer network as easily as if they were house hunting down the street...
...intensity of feeling against the war, the draft, and the "politics of joy" will keep practically all the traditional liberals from endorsing Humphery, forcing them down the radicalization trail they were beginning to follow last winter...
...ideas and should be forced on an administration that, after all, had only been facing the same problems for an average of 20 years. So now that I'm too old to be taught anything different (22), I'm stuck with the ridiculous notion that freedom to follow convictions should be granted both sides of the question, and the suspicion that maybe, somewhere, somebody over 30 knows something I don't. Shucks...
...what is wrong with contemporary society as a whole. When I was a young man, an old professor in Germany, who was the greatest man in our field, said to me musingly: "In our profession one needs a certain abnegation." Most of our young men and women today who follow in that old man's footsteps want maximum salaries and leave with pay before they have even begun to think of abnegation. This comes, of course, from the fact that universities and colleges have quadrupled their enrollments and they have to bid high for even the poorest of staff...
Witnessing this worldwide obduracy, writers as disparate as Naturalist Konrad Lorenz and Novelist Arthur Koestler have redefined Homo sapiens as Homo maniacus, arguing that man appears doomed by some inherent quirk to follow the dinosaur into oblivion. Among the apocalyptically minded, the only question is where Armageddon will begin. Harlem or the Hotel Majestic? The Sorbonne or the Sinai Peninsula...