Word: loomfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such semantic eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive instrument when compared with the human brain...
...like a turnabout in Administration policy toward the South: 1) the Supreme Court had ruled last October that there could be no more stalling on school desegregation, so the Justice Department had to get tough; 2) the sooner desegregation could be completed, the less likely it would be to loom large as a 1972 presidential election issue, and 3) the Administration needed to increase its appeal in large metropolitan areas outside the South -and to moderates within the region...
...tapestries of Poland's Magdalena Abakanowicz have the look of untanned animal hides. The loose, three-dimensional web of New Yorker Sherri Smith's Volcano no. 10 hangs clear of the wall so it can be seen from either side. Paris-based Nebraskan Sheila Hicks abandoned the loom altogether to create her modular The Principal Wife, eight individual units that hang from a rod and can be added to indefinitely...
...concerning ground forces in Europe, where the Warsaw Pact combat forces outnumber NATO forces by at least 2 to 1. With the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) negotiations soon to begin in Vienna between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, many Europeans are increasingly worried that they no longer loom very large in American defense considerations. Sensing this attitude, the Soviets have resumed their old call for a European security conference designed to make Moscow the guarantor of peace in Europe and thus replace 25 years of Pax Americana with Pax Sovietica...
According to the rules governing the Visiting Committees, their members-chosen by the chairman, usually an Overseer-need not be alumni; and some are not. But Eekstein, discussing the wealth of the members of the Economics Visiting Committee, said. "Proletarians do not loom large among Harvard alumni: and an organization will naturally choose its most successful alumni for such a group...