Word: longer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel and presented many high-level problems which only a mathematician and physicist of van Neumann's maturity and brilliance could cope with. In 1952, the machine was completed, and applied physicists in various companies began to improve upon the original until the Institute decided that it was no longer part of its purpose to maintain the old machine as merely a laboratory instrument. Thus, in the summer of this year, the computer was turned over to Princeton University. It had ceased to be an object of "advanced study...
...Advocate Poetry Series will be greatly broadened this year. The Series will now include major American writers in both prose and poetry. The writers no longer have to be alumni of the Advocate or of the University...
...very eager that he should return for a second year of work in these longer forms, but did not know till later that, though equally eager, his means at the moment made this impossible...
...abandoned; the most significant loss in the transfer from novel to film, however, is the fact that thought cannot be directly expressed. Dialogue and music, Bluestone claims, are peripheral elements; the picture dominates. Even if dialogue is accepted as an external expression of thought, once spoken it is no longer a thought. The film must compensate for this by having a very graphic plot and by nuances of acting, particularly "microphysiognomy" or intricacies of facial expression...
...least one of the members was dissatisfied by the postponement. George C. Pontikes '58 said "I am not happy about this. We have two or three constitutional amendments on the agenda, and the postponement will make next week's agenda longer...