Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...network. The latter-day Aladdin, still snugly abed, then presses a button on a bedside box and issues a string of business and personal memos, which appear instantly on the genie screen. After his shower, which has turned itself on at exactly the right temperature at the right minute, Mr. A. is alerted by a buzzer and a blue light on the screen. His boss, the company president, is on his way to the office. A. dresses and saunters out to the car. The engine, of course, is running...
...Hampshire, at Ivy League Dartmouth College, more than 96% of this year's graduating class can use computers, which are as freely available as library stacks. The system was set up by Dartmouth President John Kemeny, who might be called the Mr. Chips of computerized education. Says Computer Consultant John Nevison: "Learning to write a computer program must now be considered part of becoming a liberally educated person." Indeed, educational analysts report that high school students are increasingly choosing colleges on the basis of their computer facilities...
Hollywood summoned the actor early on. L.B. Mayer, the head of MGM. supposedly broke down in tears when Clift said: "Your scripts are bad, Mr. Mayer, and I don't want to be typecast -that'd ruin me." Finally, when he did go West for Red River, it was on his own, precedent-setting terms, and he did not have to sign the standard seven-year contract that had hobbled so many earlier stars. His best parts came in the early '50s, in A Place in the Sun with his friend Elizabeth Taylor, and in From Here...
...principal creative force in America's modern dance." And Cunningham himself has been both scorned as a fraud and hailed as a revolutionary in the tradition of the Cubist painters. At this point, most dance enthusiasts would probably agree with Barnes that "it is easy to idolize or hate Mr. Cunningham, but terribly difficult to be fair...
...this intermarriage and intermingling produce some tangled relationships and considerable confusion. When Agnes talks to Hareton about his father, she has to tell him and the reader exactly whom she means: "Your father Mr. Hindley, Mrs. Linton's brother." Later, things reach a prettier pass. Agnes is appalled to think that "not only was the Colonel Margaret's husband and the father of her unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge...