Word: heards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pictographs about ¾ in. high that can crouch, jump and do battle-face each other and fight. The miniaturization is astonishing. Sound effects are imaginative and frequent; when a spaceman gets zapped (a pictograph showing smashed robot parts flashes on the screen), a descending scale of cheerful beeps is heard. The trouble with Bambino's products is that while the gadgetry is brilliant, the games themselves are not very interesting. The problem is not restricted to Bambino; an observer suspects that in many cases (Microvision and Speak & Spell are notable exceptions), the engineers who made the toys have...
Presumably the computer children will retain some links with society. In any case, if the silicon-chip industry can gear up its production to meet the insatiable demands of the toymakers, the computer-synthesized siren songs heard by flesh-and-blood members of the population are sure to become even more beguiling...
Elizabeth B. Tracy '81, secretary of the Lowell House Committee, said yesterday she has not heard of a move to reconsider the boycott...
Every year for the past five years Faculty Council members have listened while Dean Rosovsky's special assistant reads the annual affirmative action report. And every year they have heard the same problem: the University is recruiting women and minorities at a respectable rate at the non-tenured level, but in the tenured ranks, women and minorities are still inadequately represented...
Luckily for the Crimson, the final time they heard the public address system's obscene whine, they didn't care what it sounded like. "The final Harvard goal was scored by Dave Conners...