Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-CIA contract are gonna know this--you know those magnetic strips on the back of your Bursars cards? Well, listen really closely to them sometime. (Not in a room where there are Russians or Rice Krispies--interferenceville, man...) Anyway, you year what I hear? Blip, Blip, Blip!!! A master computer is keeping tabs on us! Have you ever gotten off on the seventh floor of Holyoke Center? I thought not!! Y'see, that's where they keep the damn computer that watches us--Blip! Blip! Blip! It sees us when we're sleeping! It knows when we're awake...
...wanted nothing to do with it, and they weren't going to have anything to do with it either," Perkins says. "Lowell was willing to accept the propriety of naming it for the Lowell family which had been close to Harvard since the 18th century. But then House master Julian Coolidge on his own got hold of the right people." Above the iron work in the main gate, he weaved, very covertly, the initials 'ALL" for President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. All the time he never dared asked Lowell if he noticed it. (Of course, Perkins adds parenthetically, Lowell must have...
...poet must confront the Universe, cross it, and conquer it if he is to arrive at a metaphysical sense of self. No philosopher had a more playfully metaphysical sense of self than that most exoteric of existentialists, that master mirthful mentation--just in from the Danish Coast, here he is now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Soren "The Psycho" Kierkegaard. You may all stop reading now. I only introduced Kierkegaard as a further inducement for you to stop reading, primarily because I can't understand why any of you would be interested in Humor Theory, the most tedious of philosophical endeavors...
...historian never judges," continues Braudel. "He is not God." But then the master pauses, unwilling in the end to circumscribe his glorious science. "The power the historian has is to make the dead live," he says finally. "It is a triumph over death...
...windows for the Art Institute of Chicago. The 8-ft.-high by 30-ft.-wide windows, unveiled this week, are in commemoration of Chagall's friend the late Mayor Richard Daley. As Chagall explains: "Each window has a different theme-dance, architecture, theater, music, poetry and America." The master, who will be 90 on July 7, doesn't mind if his symbols aren't perfectly clear to viewers. After all, says Chagall with a Gallic shrug, "Me, I do not understand Chagall...