Word: madly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This boy and girl speak the courtly language of our generation, and in the timing of every line we can hear ourselves. Each allusion seems apt to us, each gesture familiar. After half a summer of trying to understand the emotions of witty Elizabethans and mad medieval kings, it is refreshing to see a play one does not have to work at. But it is hard to say whether the acting--or the play itself--is good...
Konrad Outfoxed. But all the plans went awry when the usually easygoing Erhard got mad on his return from a recent trip to Denmark (TIME, July 17). Then, after the confrontation in the Chancellor's office, Erhard went to Munich and addressed the C.S.U. convention in the same fighting mood...
...child typed them at random. Soon the child was able to understand the relationship between the letters on the typewriter keys and their spoken names. Theoretically, simple words and short sentences were to follow. But teachers are human, and some of the children quickly learned how to drive them mad. One young boy, drunk with power, hit the asterisk key on his machine 75 times before the ill-starred teacher, who had been repeating "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk," finally cried uncle...
...Congo River, then raised their right arms stiffly as they took the oath of. office. Some of them got the phrase backward, but that didn't seem to matter. Premier Moise Tshombe grinned, clapped his new government on the back, and capered with flailing fists in a mad jig down the bright green lawn as his admirers screamed their approval: "Down with Adoula and vive Tshombe." Thus the Congo's fourth Premier in as many years began his rule...
...they program their IBM 7094 to divvy up the electorate according to 480 different combinations of occupation, income, race, religion, class, and so on. Then the computer can simulate voter reactions to any candidate, issue or appeal, without even the trouble of opinion polling and all those confusing "undecideds." Mad, Dev and the 7094 are on their way to the unbeatable propaganda mix. All they need is a possible candidate. They find him in John Thatch, an unknown American engineer who is completing a bridge across a jungle ravine on the border between India and Pakistan. He is clear-eyed...