Word: mathematician
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...Burrows of GSAS, Tom Lehrer has been convulsing party, night club, and House Dance audiences with the wit and skillful presentations of songs he has composed. He has made his mark as versifier, mathematician, pianist, teacher, and actor, but he evidently needs some further introduction to the Harvard community, because his lately-released recording has been only a moderate success...
...arms, but he soon grows sated with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain she can still have the mathematician, but he and the Satyrs mock her vocal advances. "Love is a sickness full of woe," they all agree, and the chorus, with upturned noses, murmurs, "We told...
...Satyrs, James Wood and Loring Bruce displayed a degree of uninhibited rambunctiousness that is probably unparalleled in the history of Paine Hall. And Douglas Saxe, dextrously manipulating his abacus, was quite convincing as the Mathematician. He sang with great verve, and upheld the high standard of comedy. The always lovely voice of Dorothy Barn-house made the minor role of the goddess a powerful and moving experience...
...Smith, gambling is not a gamble at all; it is a cold business deal that he has made with the law of averages. By combining the caution of a banker, the calculations of a mathematician and the promotional genius of a crack retailer. Smith has made Harold's Club the biggest business in Reno and the biggest gambling house in the U.S. Last year an average of 10.000 customers jammed into Harold's every day. bet well over $100 million over the year that they could beat Ray Smith's partnership with chance. Upwards...
...inventing automatic machines. Dr. Claude E. Shannon of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, said that automatic computers had been devised that "could play a tolerably good game of checkers, translate crudely from one language to another and learn from experience as higher animals do." He reported that John Von Newman, mathematician of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. had built an abstract model machine that could reproduce itself...