Word: loomfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shutdowns and blackouts loom as the coal strike rumbles...
...positions of threads, the holes in his cards would represent the mathematical commands to the machine. Wrote Babbage's mathematically knowledgeable friend Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves...
Babbage's loom, alas, never wove anything. By the time the eccentric genius died in 1871, he had managed to put together just a few small parts; only his elaborate drawings provide a clue to his visionary machine. Indeed, when Harvard and IBM scientists rediscovered Babbage's work in the 1940s while they were building a pioneering electromechanical digital computer called Mark I, they were astonished by his foresight. Said the team leader, Howard Aiken: "If Babbage had lived 75 years later, I would have been...
...once told the young man that he had talent; as a private joke, he had told everybody in the class the same thing. Now, the student has 15 beer cases full of his handwritten novel and a gun to keep Jupe's attention from wandering. Messages begin to loom at this point. Jupe must be taught that Words Have Meaning; he must experience at first hand the Relationship Between Criticism and Creation...
...hysteria subsides--and it is beginning to subside--people will begin to look for perspective, for the relative importance of things. Not that they'll ever say that Watergate was a good thing. It just won't loom quite as large...